Considering that the Z54W01 volume created by the z/VM 5.4 installation process includes some important mdisks, such as MAINT 193, it's almost
certainly a bad idea. If you DDR'd the whole volume you're now missing all the current and correct stuff on those MDISKS. Brian Nielsen On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:28:52 -0400, Crabtree, Anne D <anne.d.crabt...@wv.gov> wrote: >When I installed and customized z/vm 5.3, the only things I changed on >the respack were MAINT, TCPMAINT, and AUTOLOG1 stuff. Everything else, >like linux instances 191 disks, DISKACNT and ACCSRV 191s, ESAMON's >stuff, etc, I put on the 530W01 pack. So, when I installed z/vm 5.4, I >just copied 530W01 to a volume named 540W01 using DDR utility. >Everything seems fine and I was just wondering if the experts out there >would make me feel better by saying that's a good idea or shoot me down >by saying that's a terrible idea because... > > > >Anne D. Crabtree > >System Programmer > >WV Office of Technology Data Center > >1900 Kanawha Blvd East > >Charleston, WV 25305 > >(304)558-5914 ext 58292 > >(304)558-1441 fax > > > >
