Thanks for the reply and helpful information, Tom. I'll engage our Storage Group and see if they can create the 3380 storage you mention. Thanks, Dave
________________________________ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Tom Rae Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 3:09 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: 3380 DDR to 3390 Question No can do. As the RESTORE section of HELP DDR states: "Data can be restored only to a DASD volume of the same or equivalent device type from which it was dumped." 3380's and 3390's are not the same device type, even if they are being emulated within the same disk array. As for the TDISK definition, the device type there indicates the type of DASD on which you want the temporary disk space to be allocated. If you do not have TDISK space defined on 3380's you cannot allocate 3380 TDISKs. If there is spare capacity in a disk array that is accessible from your VM system and that array supports 3380 emulation, try talking your storage admins into defining sufficient 3380 DASD. DDR RESTORE the tapes onto the 3380's, copy files over to 3390's, then tell the storage admins that they can have the 3380 space back. Good luck! Tom On 2009-12-15 3:16 PM, KEETON Dave * SDC wrote: Hello Listers, I've been given some DDR tapes of 3380 volumes and I'm looking for a way to restore them to 3390. Is this possible? I've tried to define TDSK as 3380, but that fails. Thanks in advance, Dave Keeton
