The refresh is only to pick up the new number of volumes. Resizing the VTOC is another set of options.
On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 1:43 PM, John Dawes <[email protected]> wrote: > Linda, > > Thanks for the feedback. Yes, I did have a note to expand the VTOC once I > had performed the copy. I noticed that in your example you don't stipulate > the size of the VTOC. Is that okay? > > > ________________________________ > From: Linda Mooney <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, 4 November 2011 8:31 PM > Subject: Re: QUESTION ABOUT COPY COMMAND - DFDSS > > Hi John, > > > > There are a couple of additional things to consider related to your inquiry. > It may be that you are already familar with them. > > > Since you are moving from 3390/3 to 3390/9, are the VTOC and VVDS large > enough? > > > > Once you have moved a full volume 3390/3, along with its volser, to a > 3390/9, check the amount of free space on the 3390/9volume. It may show the > same amount of free space as the source 3390/3 volume. In that case, you > would need to refresh the VTOC. > > > > //ICKDSF EXEC PGM=ICKDSF,PARM='NOREPLYU' > //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* > //DD0 DD UNIT=SYSALLDA,DISP=SHR,VOL=SER=volser > //SYSIN DD * > REFORMAT VERIFY(volser) DDNAME(DD0) REFVTOC > /* > > > HTH, > > > > Linda > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "John Dawes" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, November 4, 2011 6:05:42 AM > Subject: Re: QUESTION ABOUT COPY COMMAND - DFDSS > > Barry, > > I am copying each volume 1 for 1 i.e. I will be copying (4) 3390-3 to (4) > 3390-9. Sorry, I should have posed my question more clearly. > > > ________________________________ > From: "Schwarz, Barry A" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, 3 November 2011 3:42 PM > Subject: Re: QUESTION ABOUT COPY COMMAND - DFDSS > > My 1.11 copy of the DSS Storage Admin manual states that FULL is the > default. Does your manual say something different? > > Are you copying each 3390-3 to a different 3390-9 or all four to a single > 3390-9? If the latter, you might be better off with a dataset copy > specifying all datasets and the four volumes rather than four separate volume > copies. > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf Of John Dawes >> Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 8:35 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: QUESTION ABOUT COPY COMMAND - DFDSS >> >> G'Day, >> >> We are in the process of freeing a controller and I need to move 4 volumes >> off it. I plan to used DFDSS to copy the volume to a new adress. The >> source is a 3390-3 and the target is 3390-9. My question is do I need to >> add the parm FULL along with the COPY and ADMIN ALLDATA(*) ALLEXCP >> COPYVOLID PURGE statements? In the past years I did not use the FULL >> command and it worked okay. Is there a danger not using it? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
