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Status Future consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories USS
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 6, 2023

RELATED IDEAS

Improvements to the ability to ascertain whether zFS filesystems are in migration

There is currently no way to check whether filesystems are in mirroring complete status but waiting for a swap operation to complete other than using the bpxwmigf command. I'd also like a new reason code issued when the user attempts to manually mount the target zFS file system and it's still in this migration mode rather than the current reason code which doesn't point to the root cause of the problem. 

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Apr 20, 2023

    I'm somewhat indifferent in how it's implemented. When something that normally works, like mounting or deleting a ZFS file system fails, the returned information should be concise and accurate on what condition is causing the error to occur.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Apr 19, 2023
    We need more information to determine if two Ideas for two different components would be more appropriate.

    Adding a new failing reason code if the zFS is the target of a migration would need to be handled by zFS.

    Display enhancements will depend on what is desired. Currently, D OMVS,F does show that a file system is MIRRORING. Specifically, this would be displayed for the source file system. Given this output, you could use the bpxwmigf command to display the status of the migration. D OMVS,F enhancements, if desired, would be a z/OS UNIX request. Are you only interested in knowing if the swap is pending? However, after reviewing the case for this Idea, it seems that potentially things would have been clearer if the zfsadm fsinfo command had stated that the file system was the target of a migration. If that is preferable then we could just have one Idea for zFS.
  • Admin
    Kevin Evans
    Reply
    |     Jan 6, 2023

    Moving the idea to USS category, since BPXWMIGF utility is owned by USS.

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