On Wednesday, 01/23/2008 at 11:14 EST, Coffin Michael C
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm a bit late in responding to this, but 2D5 (520PG1) has PAGE
allocated on
> cylinder 0.  You need to change this extent to start on cylinder 1, not
0 (0
> contains the VTOC and has to be allocated as PERM).  Update your SYSTEM
CONFIG
> (MAINT CF1) and run ICKDSF on the pack to make sure 0 is allocated as
PERM (you
> probably ought to reformat cylinder 0 while you are in there, who knows
what CP
> might have been written on cylinder 0 that corrupted the VTOC).

Technically, it is ok to mark cyl 0 as PAGE.  The paging subsystem knows
to avoid the tracks that have "important stuff" on them.

Administratively, I wouldn't.  It's just too confusing.

Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott

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