Have no TDSK defined on our system, can I define it and use it without performing an IPL?

2007-11-04 Thread Hamilton, Brian
Sorry it's been awhile, our 5.2 system doesn't have any TDSK defined and I would like to define 100 cylinders as TDSK. I have a volume that I use for allocating mini disks, its approx. 75% empty and I want to allocate the last 100 cylinders as TDSK. Can this be done with an IPL? And to do

Re: Have no TDSK defined on our system, can I define it and use it without performing an IPL?

2007-11-04 Thread Marcy Cortes
Easier to use VDISK (and way faster). cp define vfb-512 101 12 (will give you about 100 3390 cyls at address 101) If you don't have it turned on from your system, from a class B id cp set vdisk syslim inf cp set vdisk userlim 80 (something like that - check the parameters and

Re: Have no TDSK defined on our system, can I define it and use it without performing an IPL?

2007-11-04 Thread Mike Walter
CP reads the allocation bit map only when the volume comes online. It's usually VERY difficult to get a CP-Owned volume offline without an IPL - unless the volume was marked CP-Owned but there's no real CP used areas on it. Can you tell us ALL the different allocation types on that volume?

Re: Have no TDSK defined on our system, can I define it and use it without performing an IPL?

2007-11-04 Thread Alan Altmark
On Sunday, 11/04/2007 at 07:09 EST, Hamilton, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However can I not use an existing CPOWNED volume, one of them is only 25% used and I would like to allocate the last 100 cylinders on that volume for TDSK?and do it without an IPL. I was hoping to do a CPFMTXA