CHANGE PVOL

Purpose

You can use the CHANGE PVOL command to reassign data sets to a different DASD volume. If the volume serial you enter is known to the dialog, the data sets are assigned to it. If there is enough space remaining on the volume for the data sets, no other actions are needed.

If the volume serial that you enter is not known to the dialog, then:

If DYNAMIC DASD INFO is set to Yes (the default), the dialog tries to dynamically retrieve the physical attributes of the device. If this is successful, the Global Change Candidate List panel (CPPP6050) is displayed.
- If the dialog cannot dynamically retrieve the device information, but the dialog expects the device to be offline, the dialog accepts the input on the command and displays the Global Change Candidate List panel. The dialog will not require the volume to be online, but will recheck volume availability during some operations and, if the volume has become available, it will verify the volume's attributes and correct them, if necessary.
- If the dialog does not expect the device to be offline, then you must either press the Enter key to tell the dialog that the device is expected to be offline and to accept the input and display the Global Change Candidate List panel, or press the End key to discard the input and cancel the command.
If DYNAMIC DASD INFO is set to No, the device type is set to 3390-9 and the device number is set to CCUU.

Syntax


CHANGE PVOL

>>-+-CHANGE-+----PVOL----+-DLIB--------+--volume_serial--------><
   '-CH-----'            +-OPERATIONAL-+                  
                         '-TARGET------'

Parameters

DLIB: Specifies that distribution library data sets are to be reassigned. DLIB can be abbreviated as D.
OPERATIONAL: Specifies that operational data sets are to be reassigned. OPERATIONAL can be abbreviated as O or OP.
TARGET: Specifies that target library data sets are to be reassigned. TARGET can be abbreviated as T or TARG.
volume_serial: Specifies the physical volume to which the data sets are to be reassigned.

Restrictions

You cannot use this command to reassign SMS-managed data sets or data sets that must reside on the IPL volume.

Examples

To assign operational data sets to volume_serial OPRVOL, enter:

CH PVOL OPERATIONAL OPRVOL