Re: AW: Re: What is JES2 waitning for after $TSPL(volser),SPACE=MAX?

2014-12-10 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In , on 12/10/2014 at 08:00 AM, Peter Hunkeler said: >I didn't look at the I/O rate; just was mislead by the AWAITING(E2) >thinking that there is something to be done before JES2 starts >formatting. The message could be better. The message could be better, but in the meantime the explanation

Re: AW: Re: What is JES2 waitning for after $TSPL(volser),SPACE=MAX?

2014-12-09 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Peter Hunkeler wrote: >I didn't look at the I/O rate; just was mislead by the AWAITING(E2) thinking >that there is something to be done before JES2 starts formatting. The message >could be better. Indeed. Raise a PMR for progress message, something like this 'Expanding - 10% completed.'. >>I

AW: Re: What is JES2 waitning for after $TSPL(volser),SPACE=MAX?

2014-12-09 Thread Peter Hunkeler
>>That was me. >>I remember the AWAITING() from a similar action 1 year ago. >>Since E2 was the member you gave the commands, this member did the >>formatting and you should have been able to see that JES2 doing an >>abnormally large amount of I/O on the volume. The MAS was waiting >>for E2 to

AW: Re: What is JES2 waitning for after $TSPL(volser),SPACE=MAX?

2014-12-09 Thread Peter Hunkeler
Thanks for all the help, everyone It turned out I was simply too impatient. As someone suggested, JES2 was still about to format the additional space. It just took so much longer that I had expected and the "AWAITING(E2)" is not very helpful. Anyway, no need for a PMR. -- Peter Hunkeler