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Status Delivered
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 16, 2017

Want new option on command OTCNTL to transfer ownership from a specific volume

My customer wants to transfer the ownership of specific logical Volume using z/OS Host Command Line. The OTCNTL command doesn't provide an option to do it.

TS7700 z/OS Host Command Line Request
OTCNTL command provides a method to transfer the ownership of the logical volumes in the background.

LI REQ, XXXX, OTCNTL, START, Y, 1000

The command initiates the ownership transfer of the logical volumes from cluster Y to the distributed library XXXX. It will transfer the ownership of up to 1000 logical volumes.
The Customer want to have the option to transfer the ownership from specific logical volume.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Jan 14, 2019

    CMVC 86842 opened

  • Guest
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    Jul 16, 2018

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Storage
    Product - IBM TS7700
    Component - General
    Operating system - IBM z/OS
    Source - None

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - z Systems Software
    Product - z/OS
    Component - BCP_IOS
    Operating system - IBM z/OS
    Source - None