On Thu, 10 May 2007 08:50:34 -0400, Lizette Koehler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >So is my assumption correct? If the checkpoint/spool space that is restored >from Full Volume Dumps has a S JES2,PARM='COLD,NOFMT' that JES2 would invoke >a MINI format (QUICK Format) rather than a full blown format which would >happen with a brand new, never before used environment? > Yes. And if you just use PARM=COLD it is the same thing since NOFMT is the default. Since JES2 sees the previously formatted spool space (via full volume restore) it will only do the mini format. If it was new spool space, JES2 would still do the format as if you specified FORMAT. To cover a point in your first post.... You may or may not save time by VARYing all but one spool volume offline prior to stating JES2. At JES2 warm start, it will format all of the volumes it sees in parallel - so depending on how many volumes, CHPIDs, DASD subsystems, control units, etc. it may be worth a little extra time to do them all at startup. If you wait and issue $SSPOOL commands for the remaining volumes, the formatting will be single threaded (unless something has changed... this is how it worked the last time I checked). Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group: G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS and OS390 expert at http://searchDataCenter.com/ateExperts/ Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.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
