Thanks for all replies. Our SPACE command also uses DCE to determine model number. Two points:
1. The reason I'd like to display a 'meaningful' model number is not for ordinary allocation but for volume-to-volume activities like copy (ADRDSSU) or mirroring. In such cases, it's important that the target volume match the source volume. Of course total capacity is the key, but an eyeball indicator would be helpful. We've had cases where a mismatched 'Mod-9' was incorrectly selected as target for a full-volume operation. For such purposes, all Mod-9s are not equal. 2. I tried DS P on one of our 'Mod27' volumes. It's reported as a Mod-9 rather than Mod-A: UNIT DTYPE M CNT VOLSER CHPID=PATH STATUS RTYPE SSID CFW TC DFW PIN DC-STATE CCA DDC CYL CU-TYPE 0149E,33909 ,A,000,R13DLB,A0=+ BF=+ C3=+ AE=+ A5=+ B7=+ C0=+ C4=+ 2107 1400 Y YY. YY. N SIMPLEX 9E 9E 30051 2107 ************************ SYMBOL DEFINITIONS ************************ This volume has a capacity of 3,0050 cylinders. But it's not EAV. 3. The SPACE command is very handy for day to day operations. As a TSO command, it can be issued at READY or anywhere a command line is available. No special authorization or environment is required. . . JO.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile jo.skip.robin...@sce.com From: Edward Jaffe <edja...@phoenixsoftware.com> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU, Date: 02/16/2013 08:26 AM Subject: Re: Determining 3390 Model Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On 2/16/2013 6:14 AM, John P Kalinich wrote: > The DVOL and PDS commands use the DCE (returned from UCBSCAN) to determine the 3390 model number. Until EAV, any volumes larger than a model 9 were identified as model 9. The DCE model number for EAV DASD is A. As Dale McCart points out, a "Mod6" volume (smaller than Mod9) is also shown as Mod9 by the DS,P command: IEE459I 08.20.48 DEVSERV PATHS 206 UNIT DTYPE M CNT VOLSER CHPID=PATH STATUS RTYPE SSID CFW TC DFW PIN DC-STATE CCA DDC CYL CU-TYPE 08110,33909 ,O,000,T4RES1,12=+ 2E=+ 2107 8001 Y YY. YY. N SIMPLEX 10 10 6678 2107 ************************ SYMBOL DEFINITIONS ************************ O = ONLINE + = PATH AVAILABLE > There is a SHARE requirement to document the DCE in MACLIB. Cheryl Watson looked this up for me in the SHARE requirements system. The SHARE requirement number is SSMVSS12002. It contains the following. Don't shoot the messenger. :\ "Response Code: RJ-Rejected Date: 2012-10-26 by Response: IBM does not intend to provide a solution to this request for the following reason: Reject Reason : Technical Reject Explanation : The DCE is not intended to be an external API." -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 831 Parkview Drive North El Segundo, CA 90245 http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN