Re: VOLSER issue with DASDCOPY

"Gerhard Postpischil [email protected] [hercules-390]" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.emulators.hercules390.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 5/31/2019 10:05 AM, rahimazizarab-/[email protected] [hercules-390] wrote:
> When using DASDCOPY to create a new volume it retains the original dasd 
> identity (volser).  This makes the new dasd unusable in an existing 
> system due to having two identical DASDs vtoc information; and in some 
> other system it would result in a DASD that has a different filename and 
> volser.  It seems to me that it should use the new dasd name as the 
> volser or give an option to change it.  I could not find a work around 
> to change the dasd name.

While it would be nice to have an option in DASDCOPY and related 
utilities, the way I handle this is to IPL, mount only the new volume, 
and then run ICKDSF to change the serial.

Gerhard Postpischil
Bradford, VT

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