Booooo That's what I was afraid of. :(

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf 
Of Staller, Allan
Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2015 1:36 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: JES2 SPOOL question

It is my understanding that this is the purpose of $MSPL, but I did not have 
much luck  (probably due to a procedural error(?)  on my part).

I just went through the process in reverse. Migrating Mod 3 spool to Mod 9. I 
issued a $PSPL prior to the $MSPL. When the  $MSPL was issued, very little 
actually happened.

It has been my experience that there is always "something" on the spool volume 
being drained that will require an IPL to make the "something" available for 
deletion.
Given a SYSPLEX, this is a non-issue.

Once the "something" is available for deletion, SPOOL offload/reload, or just 
plain $P* can be used to free the original spool volume.

HTH,

<snip>
In JES2, I have 11 SPOOL volumes but the last two I added were mod 9's, 
whereas, the others are mod 3's.  I did not mean to put the SPOOL volumes on 
mod 9's.  I have issued the drain ($PSPOOLA) to drain that volume but there is 
obviously a lot of stuff on it and I don't know how long it will take to drain! 
 After it drains, I will run jobs to INIT, FORMAT, and START the new SPOOLA 
(which will be a mod 3).

My question is:
Can I use the $MSPL to migrate the contents of SPOOLA to a differently named 
SPOOL volume(say, SPOOLC)?  I'm assuming , in that case, I would only need to 
INIT a mod 3 with a different name.  I'm thinking that might be a better way to 
get rid of the mod 9 and implement the mod 3 more quickly.  Some of the "stuff" 
on SPOOLA is EXECUTING rather than, for example, AWAITING HARDCOPY.  There is 
also the issue of the differing size of the packs (mod 9 vs mod 3).
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