Wasn't DIRMAINT 1.5 changed as not to clean minidisks that start at cylinder 0?
Kris, IBM Belgium, VM customer support The IBM z/VM Operating System <IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU> wrote on 2006-12-14 16:23:35: > Did you bay any chance use DIRMAINT to delete a minidisk that covered > cylinder zero of volume 230RES? When DIRMAINT deletes a minidisk, it usually > has its worker DATAMOVE format the minidisk before deallocating it to > prevent the next user from getting data from it. > /Tom Kern > On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 09:57:06 -0500, Mary Zervos wrote: > >Anyone game for another question....... > > > >Yesterday on our new 4.4 system, I was deleting some old users on random > >packs using Dirmaint while logged onto Maint. Our person who runs > >Vmbackup was logged on her Vmrmaint account running backups. All the > >Vmbackup and Vmrmaint mdisks are on the old 230RES pack that we now have > >attached to the 4.4 system as CP System. The Vmbackup person called me > >to say that all the mdisks for vmbackup and vmrmaint were empty (she > >never logged off) and upon checking myself, somehow 230RES was relabeled > >to SCRTCH. Wow, was that a shocker for me! I immediately restored a > >backup that I had but am now searching for the reason this happened. > >Dirmaint?
