Greetings,
I would like to create a very large FBA disk (about 3,000,000 FBA 512
blocks) on a FLEX system with z/VM 4.3 to accommodate a z/VSE 3.1
system residence volume. However it appears that there is an
artificial or real limit in the DIRECTXA command since I get the
following error message:
directxa user
z/VM USER DIRECTORY CREATION PROGRAM - VERSION 4 RELEASE 3.0
MDISK 148 FB-512 16 2998984 VSEPKZ MR READ WRITE MWRITE
HCPDIR1762E INVALID BLOCK SPECIFICATION CODE = 12 FOLLOWING USER ZVSE
EOJ DIRECTORY NOT UPDATED
Ready(00002); T=0.11/0.15 11:26:53
Table 135 in the z/VM V3R1.0 Planning and Administration
states that the max minidisk size for FB-512 is 4,194,296 blocks.
Of course for 9336 the max size is smaller but has been enlarged
in the equivalent z/VM V5.1 manual. What have I missed?
Regards,
Mike Lee
