ok but the restore will terminate asking for the original 18 GB database.
One single db vol is only 2.8 GB. 

I think I have the solution (found in the reference book): use the file:dsn
syntax !


//FMTPL1   EXEC PGM=ANRSERV,DYNAMNBR=300,                         
//         PARM='/FORMAT 1 ADSM.RCVRYLO1 10 FILE:''ADSM.DBNAMES'''

thanks

René Lambelet
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cook, Dwight E [SMTP:cookde AT BP DOT COM]
> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 10:58 PM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Re: Help please, how to format log and db with adsm 3.1
> under OS/ 390
> 
> ONLY DO A SINGLE LOG & A SINGLE DB !!!!!!!!!!!!!
> I ran into the same thing... I exceeded the max continuation of a EXEC
> card
> !
> Just to the single log & single db vol....
> then do formats of the other db vols like normal and go into the running
> tsm
> that you started with the single log & single db vol and add in the
> additional db vols
> 
> hope this helps
> later, 
> Dwight
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lambelet,Rene,VEVEY,GL-IS/CIS [mailto:Rene.Lambelet AT NESTLE DOT COM]
> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 3:45 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Help please, how to format log and db with adsm 3.1 under
> OS/390
> 
> 
> Hello,
> under OS/390, I have to format 1 log data set and 10 db data sets. The
> total
> length of all these names is more than 100 caracters. How can I give such
> a
> long string of caracters on the EXEC card, the OS/390 refuses it  when
> exceeding 100 car.?
> 
> FORMAT 1 ADSM.RCVRYLO1 10 ADSM.DB1 ADSM.DB2 ..... ADSM.DB10'
> 
> Is it possible to extend this limit or use a DD card ?
> 
> Thanks for any help
> 
> René Lambelet
> Nestec S.A. / Informatique du Centre 
> 55, av. Nestlé  CH-1800 Vevey (Switzerland) 
> *+41'21'924'35'43  7+41'21'924'28'88  * K4-117
> email rene.lambelet AT nestle DOT com
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