Just got my ZVDT to do some testing and wanted to install zopen.community on it. Unfortunately I did not have enough space in the default volumes. So I decided to learn how to add one.
ZVDT comes with alcckd (ALloCate CKD) that creates a volume file. One can iether specify the device type and number of cylinders or particular model. I only needed 8GB volume, so I decided to allocate a mod 9 volume.
alcckd <volnam> -d 3390-9`This will create a file named <volnam>. now we need to add it to the dev map for the emulator.
Add the following line to your devmap file.
device <devnum> 3390 3390 </path/to/the/folder>/<volnam>where <devid> is the device id. It has to be unique.
Now start the emulator via
awsstart --clean </path/to/your/devmap/file>and once started IPL the machine
ipl <resnum> parm <sysnum>xywhere <resnum> is the respack volume device id and <sysnum> is the system volume device id.
To format the volume, run the following ICKDSF job.
The STORAGEGROUP keyword means this will be an SMS managed volume.
//ICKDSF EXEC PGM=ICKDSF,REGION=0K
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSIN DD *
INIT UNIT(<devid>) NOVERIFY VOLID(<volnam>) -
VTOC(0,1,149) INDEX(15,0,100) -
PURGE STORAGEGROUP
//Note that once you submit the job, it will be sitting there with a WTOR and waiting for a reply. Check the job log for the prompt number and reply to it with U in the master console - R <waitnum>,U.
To learn details about what it does and what the numbers in VTOC and INDEX mean, take a look in the Device Support Facilities (ICKDSF) User’s Guide and Reference manual.
Now we have a volume that is ready to be used. To enable it issue the VARY ONLINE command in the master console.
VARY <devid>,ONLINENow you can go to ISPF 3.4 and specify the volume name in the Volume Serial field and list the datasets.
You should see something like
SYS1.VTOCIX.<volnam>
SYS1.VVDS.V<volnam>Now you should be able to allocate datasets on the volume.