DFSMS will work, even without ISPF, altho not as easily. Maybe Kris
Buehlen's DRM would fill that gap. I haven't tried it tho.
Jim
At 02:29 PM 12/22/2005, you wrote:
Adam Thornton wrote:
I find, after using DIRMAINT for a long time, that I actually have
quite a lot of free DASD, but it's carved up into little islands
scattered around my volumes. If I could consolidate those gaps into
fewer, larger gaps, I'd be in much better space for allocating disks
for Linux guests.
Is there a zero-cost tool that will do this defragmentation for me?
A long time ago, at a university far, far away, I used to use DFSMS's ISPF
interface for that task. It might worth looking to see if there's a
line-mode command for DFSMS that would do the same thing. DFSMS is free
now, although ISPF, of course, isn't, hence the thought about line-mode
commands for that function.
Jim Bohnsack
Cornell Univ.
(607) 255-1760
