The COD requires 3390-9 or larger volumes.
In ServerPac, z/OS itself is not in dump/restore format, but in data set
unload (IEBCOPY, IEBGENER, IDCAMS, pax) format. The data sets are
allocated in the ISPF dialog.
The target libraries for z/OS itself will probably still fit on three to
five 3390-3s, and DLIBs on another two to four, depending on what other
products you order. You need a volume large enough to contain the
largest data set, which is probably the root filesystem unless you
convert it to a multivolume data set. I don't know what the second
largest data set is, but anyone with a ServerPac dialog can see quickly
by using Modify System Layout's View and Change option to display data
sets by size. Whatever that data set might be sets the lower reasonable
practical limit for the volume size. (You could use volumes of
different sizes if you wanted to...but who wants to?)
But, it's sure to be a lot more convenient on 3390-9s or on a 3390-27.
Mike Myers wrote:
Lim:
I've heard a little about this new delivery method. What size are the
DASD images on the DVD (3390-3, 3390-9, or 3390-27)?
Mike Myers
On 10/07/2011 09:10 AM, Lim Ming Liang wrote:
Nowaday, the IBM z/OS installation media are shipped with ServerPac DVDs.
But you do need a supported z/OS Driver system to kick-start the
installation, the whole process no tape drive involved .
Regards Lim ML
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z/OS Technical Marketing
IBM Poughkeepsie
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