Matt, You are absolutely correct. Co-location is by storage pool, not by management class. So yes, you would need to carve your disk up into multiple storage pools to selectively use co-location, or you could set up a tape pool that was co-located and go directly to tapes but <caution!> you would need to have enough drives to accomplish this. I would also add the old, "disk is so cheap," but my guess is that it's not viable to add more disk (or you're on one of those platforms where disk is not "cheap"...)
I guess one thing to consider is that while you may be carving your disk up into smaller pools, the total amount of disk and the total amount being backed up are going to be the same regardless of how many pools you have, so carving one big pool up, shouldn't be that big of an issue, as long as you put some planning into the size of the disk pools. Chris Gibes Tivoli Certified Consultant IBM Certified System Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] We'd really like to avoid carving up our disk space into more smaller pools. But, as far as I can tell, that's the only way to use colocation selectively. Am I missing something, or is that the way it works? -- Matt Simpson -- OS/390 Support 219 McVey Hall -- (859) 257-2900 x300 University Of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 <mailto:msimpson@;uky.edu> mainframe -- An obsolete device still used by thousands of obsolete companies serving billions of obsolete customers and making huge obsolete profits for their obsolete shareholders. And this year's run twice as fast as last year's.
