Just a thought.
When I setup for z/OS V1.9 serverpac I had a full MOD9 (10017 cyls) to download
it. It fit very nicely without having to create a VSAM Extended foramt.
If you are only downloading the z/OS V1.9 Server pac then it will fit nicely in
one big fat zFS or HFS file on one Mod9.
Lizette
: simple question from an SMS newbie
>
>List,
>
>Please forgive the probably simple question but I can't see what I'm
>doing wrong. I am a SMS rookie - it was set up here before I got here
>and I haven't done anything with it until now, and I'm having problems.
>
>I'm trying to define an extended-format VSAM linear dataset for
>downloading z/OS 1.9. IBM says the download will be about 6.5 GB so I
>need to get the extended working to get it downloaded. I have never
>built any SMS definitions before so it's probably something stupid that
>I am missing but here goes.
>
>My plan is to define a new zFS dataset called OMVSBIG.SERVICE to hold
>the downloaded serverpac.
>
>I can allocate OMVSBIG.SERVICE with just a few cylinders and the system
>allocates it on the correct volume, but when I try to allocate my big
>dataset, the system rejects it saying the dataset will go over 4 GB but
>isn't an extended attribute dataset. I can't see what I'm missing and
>am asking for help. Here's the define and error.
>
>DEF CL(NAME(OMVSBIG.SERVICE) VOL(ZB2000) LINEAR -
>
> CISZ(4096) -
>
> CYL(25000 1000) SHR(3))
>
>IGD17103I CATALOG ERROR WHILE DEFINING VSAM DATA SET
>
>OMVSBIG.SERVICE
>
>RETURN CODE IS 140 REASON CODE IS 110 IGG0CLEV
>
>IGD306I UNEXPECTED ERROR DURING IGG0CLEV PROCESSING
>
>RETURN CODE 140 REASON CODE 110
>
>THE MODULE THAT DETECTED THE ERROR IS IGDVTSCU
>
>SMS MODULE TRACE BACK - VTSCU VTSCT VTSCH VTSCG VTSCD VTSCC VTSCR SSIRT
>
>SYMPTOM RECORD CREATED, PROBLEM ID IS IGD00004
>
>IGD17219I UNABLE TO CONTINUE DEFINE OF DATA SET
>
>OMVSBIG.SERVICE
>
>IDC3014I CATALOG ERROR
>
>IDC3009I ** VSAM CATALOG RETURN CODE IS 140 - REASON CODE IS
>
>IDC3009I IGG0CLEV-110
>
>IDC3003I FUNCTION TERMINATED. CONDITION CODE IS 12
>
>
>My question is "what am I missing?"
>
>
>Here is what I have done so far:
>
>I defined a new 3390 mod 27 to hold this thing, and it shows up with
>30043 free cylinders. I defined it using the SG parameter in ICKDSF.
>The vol-ser is ZB2000.
>
>Next I defined a storage group called SGBIG with the following
>parameters.
>
>LINE STORGRP SG VIO VIO AUTO
>
>OPERATOR NAME TYPE MAXSIZE UNIT MIGRATE
>
>--(1)---- --(2)--- -------(3)------ --(4)-- (5)-
>--(6)---
> SGBIG POOL ------- ---- NO
>
>
>Vol-ser ZB2000 is in this storage group:
>
>CDS Name . . . . . . . : MVS.SMS.SCDSI
>Storage Group Name . . : SGBIG
>Volume Serial Number . : ZB2000
>Physical Volume Status : ---------
> MB-free : ---------
> % Free : --
>
> System/Sys SMS Vol MVS Vol SMS SG
> Group Name Status Status Status
> ---------- ------- -------- ------
> WSCP ENABLE -------- ENABLE
>
>I then defined a data class called DCBIG with the following parameters.
>
>DATACLAS LAST TIME EXTENDED
>NAME MODIFIED DATA SET NAME TYPE ADDRESSABILITY
>--(2)--- --(25)--- -------(26)------- -----(27)-----
>DCBIG 14:49 EXTENDED REQUIRED YES
>DCLIST 13:47 ------------------ NO
>
>
>I added the following to the ACS routines in use.
>
>To the storage class routine, I added OMVSGRP.** as a valid SMS-managed
>dataset name.
>
>To the storage group routine, I added:
>
>FILTLIST BIG INCLUDE(OMVSBIG.**)
>
> WHEN (&DSN EQ &BIG)
> SET &STORGRP = 'SGBIG'
>
>To the data class routine I added
>
>FILTLIST VALID_DC INCLUDE('DCPDS',
> 'DCBIG',
> 'DCSTD',
> 'DCLOAD')
>FILTLIST DCBIG INCLUDE('OMVSBIG')
>IF (&DATACLAS EQ '' AND
> &PGM NE &NOORG) THEN
> SELECT (&HLQ)
> WHEN (&DCBIG)
> SET &DATACLAS = 'DCBIG'
> END
>
>I ran the validate and activate of the SMS "stuff" I defined above.
>
>Running an ACS test using the following parameters, the system came back
>telling me it would use the SGBIG and DCBIG and allocating a small
>dataset called OMVSBIG.SERVICE correctly put it on ZB2000
>
>
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