Hello,Tom: My suggestion: Use the "Transfer Minidisk" (DIRM TMDisk) function of Dirmaint to change the owner of each Mdisk. They must be defined as MDISK DEVNO. On fly, manually, the supplier of the mdisk must put it offline and do the "DETACH mdisk" and the receiver must do "CP LINK * mdisk" before put it online. Both commands on each can be done by "ÇP SEND CP userid" In next IPL, each userid will starts with the last directory configuration, without further processing. _____________________________________________ Clovis
From: Tom Huegel <tehue...@gmail.com> To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Date: 17/11/2010 12:46 Subject: My foot is the target. Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System <IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU> I have a very dynamic lab environment with several z/VM systems and a lot of shared DASD that can change from day to day. DASD is always being varied online and attached to one system or another. z/VM IPL's are not scheduled but can happen at any time. Here is the problem. Often DASD that was varied online and used by z/VM-x is no longer there after it IPL's... I don't want to have everything online for each VM at IPL. Here is the question for discussion. I thought that I could setup a 'SHUTTRAP' machine that would query dasd whan it receives a shutdown signal and save the results in a file. Then later when z/VM comes back up I can have AUTOLOG1 recreate the DASD environment from the shuttrap file before autologing the other gueste.. Any ideas? Comments? Thanks
