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- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 09:38:21 PDT
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- From: "Mark C. Lawrence" <M.Lawrence@STANFORD.BITNET>
- Subject: UNIT and VOLUME specification (was: esoteric device message)
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- REPLY TO 07/28/92 17:04 FROM IBM-MAIN@RICEVM1.BITNET "IBM Mainframe Discussion
- list": Re: Esoteric Device Message in ESA 4.2
-
- >Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 17:01:00 PDT
- >From: Leonard D Woren <LDW@USCMVSA.BITNET>
- >Subject: Re: Esoteric Device Message in ESA 4.2
- >
- >On Tue, 28 Jul 1992 11:59:03 EDT, BENSON@POKVMCR3.VNET.IBM.COM said:
- >> >(Why do I have to specify UNIT= *at all* if I specify VOL=SER= for an
- >> >online disk??? That's one of my pet peeves with MVS.)
- >>
- >> If you use SMS you do not have to specify either.
- >
- >That doesn't really answer my question, since (a) not everyone is
- >running SMS (we're not) (yet?), and (b) not all volumes wil be SMS,
- >and (c) even with SMS, using guaranteed space, wouldn't the UNIT=
- >still be required?
- >
- >Specifically, if ALTRES (for example) is permanently resident, why
- >do the following fail without UNIT=nnnn?
- >
- >//OLD DD DISP=SHR,DSN=SYS1.LINKLIB,VOL=SER=ALTRES
-
- Well, I think the simple answer is, "because MVS is too stupid to
- go look for the volume". Obviously it wouldn't be real hard to do;
- just scan thru all the UCBs for online disks. I wonder if this is on
- the list of SHARE requirements?
-
- This limitation goes all the way back to OS/360. I think the logic
- used is: (1) find a suitable UNIT, (2) find (or mount) a suitable
- VOLUME on that UNIT (or in that unit class). At a time when most
- disks were mountable, this made a lot of sense. In the era of
- nonremoveable disks it no longer does.
-
- Mark C. Lawrence
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