On Friday, 06/10/2011 at 07:51 EDT, Malcolm Beattie <beatt...@uk.ibm.com> wrote: > > (2) Have you ever done it using non-offset-0 minidisks? > > Yup, multiple times. Shouldn't cause any problems at all. Just so > long is there's enough room on the resulting minidisks to fit a > "whole mod-3 minus a few cylinders" or "whole mod-9 minus a few > cylinders". I forget the exact number (there's a table in one of > the manuals) but I'm pretty sure the installation lets you shave > more than one cylinder from a whole mod3 or mod9--i.e. it doesn't > use, need or care about the last 2-3 cyls on the volumes you give it.
The system layout is explicitly designed to occupy no more than n-1 cyls. This was done to accommodate non-fullpack minidisk installation. Hmmm... this isn't made clear in the Program Directory. A simple FLASHCOPY with relocation will take care of getting it production-ready in, um, a flash. As it were. Alan Altmark z/VM and Linux on System z Consultant IBM System Lab Services and Training ibm.com/systems/services/labservices office: 607.429.3323 mobile; 607.321.7556 alan_altm...@us.ibm.com IBM Endicott
