Forgot about Q sys and q mdisk... thanks
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of zMan Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 09:09 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: how to determine which vm holds link On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Hines, Bernard (MSFC-IS70)[UNITeS] <bernard.hi...@nasa.gov<mailto:bernard.hi...@nasa.gov>> wrote: Old system programmer taught me to "link <userid> <devddd> <devadd> rr" link dasdmgr a350 ab50 rr system responds DASD AB50 LINKED R/O; R/W BY 3 USERS Then issue Q link <devadd> q link ab50 system responds ZOSUSR19 A350 R/W, CLIMICA A00F R/W, CLMAFPRD 9004 R/W, VMRMAINT AB50 R/O That works for minidisks, but not so much for actual RDEVs. I believe the OP was trying to do something to the RDEV, like take it offline. So Q SYS is the better answer in this case.