IBM MAINFRAME HELP & SUPPORT FORUMS

pratapreddy · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 2

How to find out the list of volumes in a mainframe DASD. I want to know the available volume serial no's in the DASD. this to validate the Vol-ser-no entered by user.

Rameshs · Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 49 Location: India, Chennai

You can view the DASD free space info by using MVS/QuickRef 6.1

How you can achieve the result

Start panel type QW

MVS/QuickRef 6.1 panel type S

In * MVS/QuickRef 6.1 - Request DASD Free Space Information * panel
you can the view various info related to storage.

martin9 · Joined: 01 Mar 2006 Posts: 278 Location: Basel, Switzerland

hy pratapreddy,

if you have not installed MVS/Qwickref at your site,
you can get this information with IDCAMS DCOLLECT
function. there you will get all sms-related information,
therefore read the Volume-Record which contains all
volumes on your system, offline and online.

martin9

vidhyanarayanan · Joined: 23 Dec 2005 Posts: 54

hi,
If ur requirement is to list the entries in VTOC or CATALOG,
u can use the utility IEHLIST

In addition to this,
code lik this

// sysin dd *
LISTVTOC FORMAT, VOL =XXXX
/*

TRY!

mailsri · Joined: 04 Apr 2006 Posts: 15

Hi

You can use this command to see the list of volumes..

/d u,dasd

The above command will list all the available volumes in the mainframe DASD.

/d u,dasd,online

The above command will list the volumes which are in use in the mainframe DASD.

Note: You should have the sufficient privileges to give this command.

Srinivas. J
System Programmer

satya12 · Joined: 25 Apr 2006 Posts: 23 Location: India

Hi

You can use DVOL command to list attributes for all the volumes.Use outtrap to route output of the command to dataset sothat you can browse back n forth.

Satya