Re: reformat volume id

2018-03-09 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 9 Mar 2018 09:45:18 +0800, ibmm...@foxmail.com wrote: >>Q1.Are these datasets shared across different LPARs on the same or different >>Catalogs? > > A1.These are datasets shared across different LPARs on different Catalogs. Do you mean that different data sets are cataloged in

Re: reformat volume id

2018-03-08 Thread ibmm...@foxmail.com
Hi Groete wrote >Q1.Are these datasets shared across different LPARs on the same or different >Catalogs? A1.These are datasets shared across different LPARs on different Catalogs. >Q2.Are they [or rather the volser] shared between more than one SysPlex? A2.There are share in one

Re: reformat volume id

2018-03-08 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Jason Cai wrote: >Because there are many datasets, do we need to uncatalog each dataset on the >volume and then recatalog them? You have gotten good replies and warning about the complexities. I concur with Kees. Do your moves first and then when you have an empty volser, vary it offline and

Re: reformat volume id

2018-03-08 Thread retired mainframer
Only if you want to use the catalog to find the datasets later. And you should perform the uncatalog before the rename. The block command feature in ISPF 3.4 make both tasks very easy. If the volume is managed by SMS, you will need to convert it to unmanaged before the uncatalog and convert

Re: reformat volume id

2018-03-08 Thread Vernooij, Kees (ITOPT1) - KLM
Yes, and if they are vsam or complex vsam structures (AIX etc) it will be quite complicated. It is simples to create a volume with the new name and move the datasets to the new volume. The utility (DMS, DSS, FDR) will take care of the recatalog work. Grtn, Kees. > -Original Message- >