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Pageable Link Pack Area (PLPA)

It’s defined in SYS1.PARMLIB(LPALSTxx). It’s an area of Common Storage that is loaded at IPL time. This area contains SVC routines, access methods, and other READ-ONLY System Programs, along with any READ-ONLY reenterable user programs selected by an installation that can be shared among users of the system. There cannot […]

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Link Pack Area (LPA)

It’s a common Virtual Storage Area. It’s non-getmainable. It’s built at IPL time by loading Load modules contained in SYS1.LPALIB and its concatenations. There are 2 LPAs: one above “the line” (16MB) and the other below depending on the residence mode of the load module. Because the Load modules are […]

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Storage

Display all Storage Groups

To display all the Storage Groups of the currently active SMS configuration, we use the command: D SMS,SG(ALL) Example: D SMS,SG(ALL) IGD002I 15:24:57 DISPLAY SMS 749 STORGRP  TYPE    SYSTEM= 1 SGTSTVL  POOL            + SGDB2VL  POOL            + DUMMY    DUMMY           . SGOVRFL  POOL            * SGTAPE   TAPE            + ***************************** LEGEND ***************************** . THE […]

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Storage

Display the status of a storage group

If you come across the need to check the status of a storage group then you can use the MVS command: D SMS,SG(storage_group) For example: storage group name:  STGTSTVL RESPONSE=SYST IGD002I 15:17:43 DISPLAY SMS 939 STORGRP  TYPE    SYSTEM= 1 SGTSTVL  POOL            + ***************************** LEGEND ***************************** . THE STORAGE GROUP OR […]