My experience is that if the IODF is allocated in more than one extent it is unusuable for system IPL/Dynamic Acitivation. This my be different on more current levels of the operating system, we are OS/390 2.4/2.10.
Bob Rankin -----Original Message----- From: Eric N. Bielefeld [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 3:40 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: DSS RESTORE - how to enforce CONTIG Radoslaw, I see no one answered your post from 9-18. Unfortuneatly, I won't either. I did have a question though. Does the IODF have to be in one extent? I don't recall hearing that rule. Eric Bielefeld Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer Milwaukee Wisconsin 414-475-7434 ----- Original Message ----- From: "R.S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: <IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU> Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 12:24 PM Subject: DSS RESTORE - how to enforce CONTIG >I just encountered the following problem: > Restored production IODF from DSS dump and got two-extents file. For > obvious reason I didn't want more than 1 extent. <g> The primary reason > was near-full, fragmented volume, which shouldn't have place, however it > had place. > > Q: how can I prevent such multi-extent allocation ? > I'd like to have something a'la CONTIG: single extent file or failure. > > -- > Radoslaw Skorupka > Lodz, Poland ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
