On 1/5/2018 12:06 PM, John Eells wrote:
Ward, Mike S wrote:
Innovation has a product called FDRPAS that can be rented that does
the copies while the system is up and running. We have used it
several times and it works great.
<snip>
I have no experience with FDRPAS or its IBM counterparts (like TDMF,
if I recall correctly). However, unless they are able to talk to
devices in subchannel sets other than SCS0, none would solve Skip's
problem.
Yes, they would! What Skip should do is upgrade from whatever ancient
DASD configuration has been carried forward at SCE for decades to
modern, 21st-century DASD geometries. FDRPAS and similar products will
help him do that seamlessly. Even being past the half-way point on UCB
count won't be an issue if he consolidates his mod-3 DASD pools to
mod-27s, which are nine times larger. Even an extremely-conservative
conversion to (still quite ancient) mod-9s can cut the device address
footprint by 2/3!
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