Actually, the long link got me an 'you are not authorized', so I used google, too, and found something from 8/7/2007, NOT from the ibm page, though.
Two words about it: 1. Ontop for EMEA customers: I think ontop is dead in EMEA. IBM consistently refused to use ontop to look at a dump, always demanding the dump to be ftp'd in. That was (and still is) a nuisance. A colleague then wrote a program that allows us to ftp directly to IBM (don't ask me how), but without it we would still send cartridges. We have now deleted the environment. 2. I have just done some testing for standalone dump to a large dasd data set (and fallen flat on my face while I was at it). A word of warning: The UCB address(es) of the DASD data set are put into the preallocated DASD data set. Make sure they don't change! (This may be what the paper refers to as hiperswap, and I don't know what it is.) We mirror our DASD and when we swapped, the ucb address for each volume changed to its mirror while the former mirror became the primary. This failed sadump spectacularly! (with a message that didn't tell me anything under 1.8. I am told it changed to something meaningful with 1.9) We have now moved that data set to non-mirrored DASD. When things finally worked, the complete standalone dump of a 6GB real storage fully loaded lpar took less than 10 minutes from dragging the icon for sadump to dragging the icon for MVS IPL. Most of the time was spent by the operator (not me) who needed to read what to input (three times enter with nothing to type on the HMC, and a dump title in between). I still need to test the biggest production lpar with 10GB real storage, just to make sure it fits the DASD data set. And admittedly, to have an argument against the prejudice that 'stand alone dump takes too long'. Regards, Barbara Nitz -- Psssst! Schon vom neuen GMX MultiMessenger gehört? Der kann`s mit allen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/multimessenger ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
