On: Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 04:45:25PM -0500,- Tim Gray } My question / dilemma is probably very routine to most of you, but I'm not } sure where to begin. My clients are encountering space problems from time } to time that will cause their over night applications to abend. They } contact us, and we increase their disk space and they continue with their } batch processing. They have asked if there is a way to increasing a disk } automatically, or if there is a way to create a pool of volumes, much like } SMS does on MVS, that several IDs would all have access to? Is that where } the Shared File System would come in? If so, how does that work exactly? } What types of problems might I encounter with SFS? I haven't looked into } the documentation (I wanted to make sure it was SFS that I needed to use), } but is there a specific book that would guide me through the setup and } management of SFS, if it's what I need to use?
Tim, The earlier suggestion of using SFS is an excellent one. I would like to present an older solution which you can use if you don't have SFS running and are reluctant to set it up just for this. Allocate some space which can be from a few hundred cylinders to multiple full packs as TDSK and use t-disks, You can allocate them in the directory or just have the user define as much as they think they need as needed. The disadvantage of t-disk is that it must be formatted each time. If you can use FBA disks for t-disk, they format faster. Another solution which some shops have implemented is to have pools of preformatted disks available and link to them as needed. You can have a group of 10 cyl disks, a group of 50 cyl disks, a group of 100 cyl disks etc. Then an exec that can be called with a size and will locate an unused disk of the right size, link to it, make sure its empty and access it. -- Rich Greenberg N6LRT Marietta, GA, USA richgr atsign panix.com + 1 770 321 6507 Eastern time zone. I speak for myself & my dogs only. VM'er since CP-67 Canines:Val, Red & Shasta (RIP),Red, husky Owner:Chinook-L Atlanta Siberian Husky Rescue. www.panix.com/~richgr/ Asst Owner:Sibernet-L
