I was just about to make some changes, and was "taking inventory" before changing anything, when I noticed that the default system built during the zVM 5.1 install has its paging and spooling packs using cylinder zero for page / spool. Is this normal? I had previously thought that cylinder zero should be PERM to keep anything from being written on it. Will zVM honor the drive label, and not page over it? Is there any advantage / disadvantage to this setup?
Can I, without harm to foot, change cylinder zero to perm on the SPOL volume, without disrupting the spool files stored on the volume? Should I need to?
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