>>> On 6/27/2011 at 05:23 PM, Tom Huegel <tehue...@gmail.com> wrote: > Another solution I thought of would be to define the mdisk to VSE (I suppose > z/OS would work too) then I could use JCL to create a file appending the > current LINUX partition and write a program (any language) to open the file, > write 4K records to the end. and close the file. > > Then go back to CMS for LXFMT to update the partition label.. and then > to LINUX to expand the file system.. > > Safer than me calculating where to DDR copy to, but still a mess...
And costing you far more of your time and machine resources than simply copying the data. Don't do it. It's almost guaranteed to fail due to the many layers of things you're trying to circumvent. (ICKDSF, dasdfmt, fdasd, $DIETY knows what else I'm forgetting...) Mark Post
