CA's VM:Secure/VM:Direct has a "DASD defrag" (compress) function ...
JR Imler JR (Steven) Imler Computer Associates Senior Software Engineer Work: +1 703 708 3479 Fax: +1 703 708 3267 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: VM/ESA and z/VM Discussions [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Bohnsack Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 02:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Minidisk defragger? 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
