VM SPOOL question

2006-10-13 Thread William Boyer
My VM SPOOL is at 74% used. Normally I run a REXX/PIPE that does a Q RDR EXP and calculates the blocks used by each user and gives me a list of the top 10. Normally this comes close to what the Q SPOOL ALLOC shows. However, today the two are off by a large amount: * Source Available Num

Re: VM SPOOL question

2006-10-13 Thread Bates, Bob
of the reasons I like VM:Spool... Bob BatesCitigroup Technology Infrastructure817-317-8033 -Original Message-From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of William BoyerSent: Friday, October 13, 2006 10:55 AMTo: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDUSubject: VM SPOOL question My VM

Re: VM SPOOL question

2006-10-13 Thread Schuh, Richard
, October 13, 2006 8:55 AMTo: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDUSubject: VM SPOOL question My VM SPOOL is at 74% used. Normally I run a REXX/PIPE that does a Q RDR EXP and calculates the blocks used by each user and gives me a list of the top 10. Normally this comes close to what the Q

Re: VM SPOOL question

2006-10-13 Thread Brian Nielsen
Those files are for the CP dump. Perhaps in the past you didn't have DUM P turned on. Doing a Q DUMP will tell you how many SPOOL pages are reserve d for the CP DUMP. The SET DUMP command is used to turn DUMP on or off and to where. Brian Nielsen On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 11:55:01 -0400,

Re: VM SPOOL question

2006-10-13 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William BoyerSent: Friday, October 13, 2006 11:55 AMTo: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDUSubject: VM SPOOL question My VM SPOOL is at 74% used. Normally I run a REXX/PIPE that does a Q RDR EXP and calculates the blocks used by each user and gives me

Re: VM SPOOL question

2006-10-13 Thread Bates, Bob
Yeah, I didn't think about it long enough. What can I say, it's Friday. -Original Message-From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Schuh, RichardSent: Friday, October 13, 2006 11:07 AMTo: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDUSubject: Re: VM SPOOL question

Re: VM SPOOL question

2006-10-13 Thread Schuh, Richard
9:13 AMTo: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDUSubject: Re: VM SPOOL question Yeah, I didn't think about it long enough. What can I say, it's Friday. -Original Message-From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Schuh, RichardSent: Friday, October 13

Re: VM SPOOL question

2006-10-13 Thread William Boyer
PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Schuh, Richard Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 12:29 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: VM SPOOL question And at least the larger of the 2 will grow over time, depending on the amount of space needed to include all pages devoted to CP. This hasbeenthoroughly discussedin

Re: VM SPOOL question

2006-10-13 Thread Brian Nielsen
I decided to see what SET DUMP DASD would do on my system as far as reclaiming any DUMP space growth caused by SPXTAPE over time. Here is what I got: q dump DASD dump space CP IPL RDEV PAGES - 661F 278346 6748 253074 Ready; T=0.01/0.01 10:37:25 set dump dasd DASD 661F dump unit CP

Re: VM SPOOL question

2006-10-13 Thread Jim Bohnsack
I'll second the SPOOLCHN suggestion. I've never had VM:SPOOL so I probably don't know what I'm missing, but SPOOLCHN is great. Jim Huegel, Thomas wrote: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --_=_NextPart_001_01C6EEE1.D03604F2 X-EC0D2A8E-5CB7-4969-9C36-46D859D137BE-PartID:

Re: VM SPOOL question

2006-10-13 Thread Schuh, Richard
Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brian Nielsen Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 9:56 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: VM SPOOL question I decided to see what SET DUMP DASD would do on my system as far as reclaiming any DUMP space growth caused by SPXTAPE over time

Re: VM SPOOL question

2006-10-13 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
1:10 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: VM SPOOL question If you have another pack that you can use, I would suggest formatting it, allocating it a SPOL pack, and designating it as a dump pack in your system config. That 91% that you see for Z52SP2 is mostly allocated for DUMP. You have

Re: VM SPOOL question

2006-10-13 Thread Schuh, Richard
, on the IBM VM Download page that it needs. Regards, Richard Schuh -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jim Bohnsack Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 10:00 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: VM SPOOL question I'll

Re: VM SPOOL question

2006-10-13 Thread Brian Nielsen
- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brian Nielsen Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 9:56 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: VM SPOOL question I decided to see what SET DUMP DASD would do on my system as far as reclaiming any DUMP space