Re: DASD upgrade and start Mirroring

Thanks for the replies from all sources

With regard to any down time for the change, we don't have the normal time
pressure because this is not an everyday production system. While it is used
for some development it is only used for production for week around
the end of a month.

I would agree the save/restore would seem the way to go, but (and there's
always that BUT), I'm not sure I can get away with that. Here's why.

I'd started to ask about this part back a few months ago but got distracted.

An option 21 save yields a message that some object are damaged. I've
restored the few damaged application objects that we created but there are
two qsys objects that are damaged and lower level info messages during the
opt 21
save say that the operating system "might" have to be reloaded to get the
damaged objects back.

I don't know if the Opt 21 save we have has the undamaged versions of the
objects and
reloading the operating system from scratch would be iffy because I have a
ton of CD and ptf CDs and there person who knew this stuff is no longer
around.

The damaged objects are.

PRINT DAMAGED OBJECTS
QSYS QKRBGSS *SRVPGM 1
QSYS QDPDD1P *FILE 1

The system does not seem to be bothered by these damage items.

I've tried to restore these from the tape but the restore says it can't find
them but that is probably because I'm not pointing the RESTORE object
command at the correct tape file. QSYS does not appear to reside in a tape
volume which is labeled like a normal user library.

Any thoughts on finding where the objects might be on the tape.

Steve Moland


"Pat Barber" <mboceanside@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message news:465DB810.3000408@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I believe this very subject come up earlier in the
year and it was generally agreed that save/reload was
the best way to do this...

or go here for the other method out of the manuals.

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/pubs/html/as400/v4r5/ic2924/v4r5hwpdf/index.htm



Steve Moland wrote:

I bought 4 model 6818 17.54GB drives and a 2748 Raid controller. (I
installed the raid controller and noticed a big difference in the speed
of a
disk intensive job I run every so often.)

I had a step by step list of how to install the DASD but I've lost it and
can't remember where I got it. The list came from a discussion somewhere
a
few years back but I've googled and can't seem to find the right
combination
of words.

I believe the write up said something about reducing the data on my disk
first if mirroring was going to be turned on.

I should be able to get the total down to under 50% on the existing
drives.
I've lots I can take off temporarily. QEJB lib contains about 400MB of
Save
Files alone.

Where can I find the steps I need to follow?

The system is a model 170 V4R5 and I've included the following from work
with Disk Status.

Size %
Unit Type (M) Used
1 6607 4194 82.2
2 6607 4194 83.0
3 6607 4194 83.1
4 6607 4194 83.1

regards
Steve Moland
Londonderry NH

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