My R13 version of SCUNTBL is 127 cylinders. 2.1 was a huge increase. I'll leave the 'in-place' volume conversion to the hardware gurus.
. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-302-7535 Office robin...@sce.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Nims,Alva John (Al) Sent: Friday, April 22, 2016 10:55 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Re: Respack Volume Size Challenge Wow, I guess I have that to look forward to when going to 2.2. My current z/OS 1.13 SCUNTBL is only 64 CYL, ouch, one more nail for me to use to convince my storage guy to give me a few Mod 27's. I do have a question and YES IT IS A DUMB ONE, I freely admit it, the more I get back into z/OS, the more I do not know anymore, but I thought I had heard of a way, could be my mind playing tricks, it does that a lot, but I thought that there is a way to convert a Mod 9 to a Mod 27 in-place? Could be a hardware option or at a z/OS level, or both, maybe? Al Nims Systems Admin/Programmer 3 UFIT University of Florida (352) 273-1298 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jesse 1 Robinson Sent: Friday, April 22, 2016 1:32 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Respack Volume Size Challenge After living in close quarters for some time with a single Mod-9 sysres, we seem to have finally outgrown our britches for the next 2.1 RSU. Multiple sysres volumes would require changes to our venerable system migration process, which is used to populate seven different sysplexes from the SMP/E target packs. So we're trying to procure Mod-27s in order not to have to touch the migration mechanism. As Jerry indicates, multiple sysres volumes would require a culture change in addition to a technical one. Bioware is the most difficult area to manage. ;-) BTW the largest allocation on the sysres volume is SCUNTBL, a whopping 2769 cylinders, far larger than distant second SCEERUN2. We could probably stay on a Mod-9 if we treated SCUNTBL as we do ZFS files, which we migrate and manage separately by DSN. Still the simplest solution is a bigger volume. . . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-302-7535 Office robin...@sce.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jerry Whitteridge Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2016 9:02 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Re: EXTERNAL: Re: Respack Volume Size Challenge We use &SYSR1 through &SYSR5 to have a 5 pack resvol set (note these include OMVS related HFS/ZFS - hence the number/sizes) and have no issues. Biggest problem I have is folks inadvertently recataloging the datasets from their indirect values while doing maintenance so we locked down the Master Cat such that even the Sysprogs have restrictions on what they can change. Jerry Whitteridge Manager Mainframe Systems & Storage Albertsons - Safeway Inc. 925 738 9443 Corporate Tieline - 89443 If you feel in control you just aren't going fast enough. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Lucas Rosalen Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2016 2:14 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: Respack Volume Size Challenge As far as I have seen, it's quite simple: create a &SYSR2 symbol (using &SYSR1 and changing last char from 1 to 2, for example) and update MCAT accordingly. Once I've worked for a client that had 3-volumes respack. It indeed worked. We used to keep datasets like LINKLIB, MACLIB, NUCLEUS, etc in 1st volumes though... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Lucas Rosalen* Emails: rosalen.lu...@gmail.com / *lrosa...@pl.ibm.com <lrosa...@br.ibm.com>* LinkedIn: http://br.linkedin.com/in/lrosalen Phone: +48 (71) 792 809 198 2016-04-21 10:45 GMT+02:00 Jake Anderson <justmainfra...@gmail.com>: > Hello, > > From the z/OS 2.1, I have started using Mod-27 as the Load > address(Respack) for IPLing the z/OS 2.1 LPAR. I am curious how the > other Shops are managing when they do not options of using Mod-27 and > they have to survive with Mod-9. I believe the Extended Indirect cataloging > is one Options. > > What kind of challenges are there when the Respack is divided into two > Volumes ? > > Jake ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
