Re: Respack Volume Size Challenge

May 18, 2016 2:49 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Re: Respack Volume Size Challenge All, It's hard to imagine that any customer is limited to specific volume size nowadays. For a decade or so now all the storage vendors have delivered the ability to make right-sized v

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Of Ron Hawkins Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 2:49 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Re: Respack Volume Size Challenge All, It's hard to imagine that any customer is limited to specific volume size nowadays. For a decade or so now all the storage vendors have delivered

Re: Respack Volume Size Challenge

To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: Respack Volume Size Challenge As far as I have seen, it's quite simple: create a symbol (using and changing last char from 1 to 2, for example) and update MCAT accordingly. Once I've worked for a client that had 3

Re: Respack Volume Size Challenge

Years ago (pre-9) respacks had ‎to be 'split up'. Now, we ask the risk! -teD   Original Message   From: Lucas Rosalen Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2016 05:14 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: Respack Volume Size Challenge As far as I have seen, it's

Re: Respack Volume Size Challenge

Tom Marchant wrote: On Sun, 24 Apr 2016 11:31:42 -0500, Mike Schwab wrote: Once a volume exceeds 64K cylinders, the allocations must be a multiple of 21 cylinders, and the volume must be a multiple of 1113 cylinders. That is the z/OS requirements for EAV volumes. More precisely, allocations

Re: Respack Volume Size Challenge

- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Jerry Whitteridge > Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2016 9:02 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: (External):Re: EXTERNAL: Re: Respack Volume Size Challenge > > We use through to ha

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On Sun, 24 Apr 2016 11:31:42 -0500, Mike Schwab wrote: >Once a volume exceeds 64K cylinders, the allocations must be a >multiple of 21 cylinders, and the volume must be a multiple of 1113 >cylinders. That is the z/OS requirements for EAV volumes. More precisely, allocations from the

Re: Respack Volume Size Challenge

Once a volume exceeds 64K cylinders, the allocations must be a multiple of 21 cylinders, and the volume must be a multiple of 1113 cylinders. That is the z/OS requirements for EAV volumes. On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 10:41 AM, R.S. wrote: > W dniu 2016-04-23 o 20:46,

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W dniu 2016-04-23 o 20:46, Mike Schwab pisze: [...] Some vendors support 1 cylinder increments. EAVs (Mod 59+) must be incremented by 1113 cylinders. I'm curious about 1113 cyl increment. Is it requirement of EAV in z/OS or rather implementation specific feature of DS8000 disk system? I

Re: Respack Volume Size Challenge

half Of Jesse 1 Robinson > Sent: Friday, April 22, 2016 1:32 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Respack Volume Size Challenge > > After living in close quarters for some time with a single Mod-9 sysres, we > seem to have finally outgrown our britches for the next

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robin...@sce.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Nims,Alva John (Al) Sent: Friday, April 22, 2016 10:55 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Re: Respack Volume Size Challenge Wow, I guess I have

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UFIT University of Florida (352) 273-1298 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jesse 1 Robinson Sent: Friday, April 22, 2016 1:32 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Respack Volume Size Challenge After living

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Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Jerry Whitteridge > Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2016 9:02 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: (External):Re: EXTERNAL: Re: Respack Volume Size Challenge > > We use through to have a 5 pack resvol set (note these incl

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essage- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jesse 1 Robinson Sent: Friday, April 22, 2016 10:32 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: Respack Volume Size Challenge After living in close quarters for some time with a single Mod-9

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Nims,Alva John , Al wrote: You think 3 packs was crazy, for a time I worked with up to 10 packs, now it did include the entire SMPe data sets, but what we did there was include the primary res volume ID as part of the data set name, yep, the copy job was huge process. Eventually the SMPe

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r 3 UFIT University of Florida (352) 273-1298 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John Eells Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2016 7:18 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Respack Volume Size Challenge Lucas Rosalen wrote: >

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rame Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Lucas Rosalen Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2016 2:14 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: Respack Volume Size Challenge As far as I have seen, it's quite simple: create a symbol (using and changing last char from 1

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At one shop I worked at a long time ago, we had a 6 pack Sysres system. They were all 3390 Mod9s. It worked quite well. Currently our only issue is the OMVS datasets needed. We have put those on a Sysres volume that is a 3390 Mod54 with all other SYSRES volumes being a 3390 Mod27. We may

Re: Respack Volume Size Challenge

Lucas Rosalen wrote: As far as I have seen, it's quite simple: create a symbol (using and changing last char from 1 to 2, for example) and update MCAT accordingly. Once I've worked for a client that had 3-volumes respack. It indeed worked. We used to keep datasets like LINKLIB, MACLIB,

Re: Respack Volume Size Challenge

As far as I have seen, it's quite simple: create a symbol (using and changing last char from 1 to 2, for example) and update MCAT accordingly. Once I've worked for a client that had 3-volumes respack. It indeed worked. We used to keep datasets like LINKLIB, MACLIB, NUCLEUS, etc in 1st volumes