OK, the fact that one time there were no files on or partly on the disk in slot 16 when you IPLed
with out it does not mean that there will not be the next time. As you have the disks at 16 and 17
marked for dump storage nothing else should be on them. If you are willing to lose all the dumps on
the spool you can probably get away with changing their slots. If the regular spool space gets full
and there is free space on the dump reserved space then VM will use that space. Also if you run out
of dump reserved space and VM needs to allocate more space for a dump it will use any spool space.
It sounds like you try to keep lots of extra spool space on your system. That is good if you can
afford it. If you can keep your dumps and ordinary spool files separate that is helpful.
Schuh, Richard wrote:
The existing spool, not including dump space, volumes would remain in
place on their current volumes. I do not think that, if there were no
existing dumps, that relocating those two disks to different slots would
be a problem. The system did not even whimper when it came up minus the
first of the dump disks a short while ago. It happily allocated both
dump files on the remaining disk. The operators did not notice any
messages, much less have to respond to any, when the system was IPLed
minus the disk. I noticed that it was missing the next day when I
entered a Q ALLOC SPOOL command. It has since been IPLed with the disk
present, and there was nothing out of the ordinary during the system
start up.
Regards,
Richard Schuh
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Stephen Frazier
Information Technology Unit
Oklahoma Department of Corrections
3400 Martin Luther King
Oklahoma City, Ok, 73111-4298
Tel.: (405) 425-2549
Fax: (405) 425-2554
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