My first reaction to the ICKDSF INIT suggestion was that it was a joke. Like the story of the two hunters in the woods. One accidentally shoots the other. Panicky emergency call:
"My friend has been shot. I think he's dead." "In order to take the right action, we need to know. Can you make sure he's dead?" Pause. BANG. "Yes, I'm sure he's dead." In other words, don't INIT a volume just to 'make sure' it's empty. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Allan Staller Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 8:43 AM To: [email protected] Subject: (External):Re: how to verify whether the volume is empty or not? yes -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 10:41 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: how to verify whether the volume is empty or not? Brian Would the INIT work if there was still a SYS1.VVDS or SYS1.VTOCIX still on the volume? Lizette > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Brian Fraser > Sent: Monday, September 25, 2017 10:45 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: how to verify whether the volume is empty or not? > > Run ICKDSF with the INIT parameter.... then its verified empty :) > > Brian > > On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 1:36 PM, Edward Finnell < > 0000000248cce9f3-dmarc- [email protected]> wrote: > > > The problem is that if the from volume has a UCAT on it some updates > > may me missed in the time it takes to do the copy. Guess I'd start > > with an INIT'd volume then duplex to it. If successful break the > > duplex, make the secondary primary and reinit the old from volume. > > > > In a message dated 9/26/2017 12:06:22 AM Central Standard Time, > > [email protected] writes: > > > > > > Once you verify that a volume is empty, you need some method to > > insure new datasets are not placed on it. SMS supports DISABLE NEW. > > The best I can think of for a non-SMS volume is to vary it offline > > until you are ready to do something with it. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
