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Status Future consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories DFSMS SDM
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 4, 2024

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ANTRQST support for returning System Name for each Path Group ID

In our environment with 26 LPARs across 16 Sysplexes it can be challenging and time consuming to determine which LPAR a DASD device is online to.

The DEVSERV command: DEVSERV QDASD,xxxxx,QHA is useful for one or two devices but can be cumbersome when looking at hundreds or more.

The ANTRQST macro with REQUEST=QHA offers similar details to DEVSERV however it does *not* return System Name for each Path Group ID.

Would it be possible to include System Name similar to that returned via a DEVSERV command?

Scenarios where this would offer practical help in a large mainframe environment include:-

  1. Verifying volumes are only online to required LPARs during change validation and/or regular health checks.
  2. Determining which LPARs volumes are online to before executing FDRPAS (or TDMF) to SWAP; to build SWAP and Monitor jobs programmatically,
  3. Verifying volumes are *offline* everywhere before re-initialising etc.

 

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    |     Jun 19, 2024
    .This request will not be delivered within the release currently under development, but the theme is aligned with our multi-year strategy. IBM is soliciting RFE Community feedback for this request through activities such as voting. IBM will update this request in the future.

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