Re: Volume for Z/os USS

2018-04-12 Thread Seymour J Metz
I assume that you mean Unix System Services and that you're using HFS. I'd recommend switching to ZFS and make everything SMS managed. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Ambrose Jr

Re: Volume for Z/os USS

2018-04-12 Thread Steve Smith
So many assumptions. 1. USS doesn't use volumes, it uses (mostly) MVS data sets to contain file-systems. These are created/defined with MVS methods. 2. The filesystems can be in either HFS or ZFS data sets. HFS data sets won't "grow" like ZFS data sets can. 3. IF using ZFS, then some of the previ

Re: Volume for Z/os USS

2018-04-11 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Ambrose Jr wrote: >My Z/os unix volume is out of space, i'm unable to create or load files to >OMVS. I have no clue how to add volume dedicatedly for USS purpose ,please >share link or doc to fix it. You have gotten good replies, but I have one more question: Are these zFS dataset(s) used by

Re: Volume for Z/os USS

2018-04-11 Thread Lizette Koehler
I would first do the command in OMVS df -kP /pathname Look to see if it is full Second do a LISTC ENT('zfs file name') all See how it is defined What is PRIMARY and SECONDARY allocations, how many extents, what is Hi RBA U Is the file over 4GB in size, if yes, then is it allocated as Extended

Re: Volume for Z/os USS

2018-04-11 Thread Gibney, Dave
I could ask many questions. Let's start with: What version z/OS? How is SMS configured? How are your ZFS files arranged( root and others) and mounted? > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On > Behalf Of Ambrose Jr > Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 8:00 PM > To: IBM