If jobs are currently using an independent disk pool, you cannot make the disk pool unavailable (vary off). In order to make the independent disk pool unavailable, all the jobs using the disk pool need to release their reservation on the disk pool. To determine how to handle this situation, you must first view the jobs:
To view the jobs using an independent disk pool:
- In iSeries™ Navigator, expand My Connections (or your active environment).
- Expand any iSeries server.
- Expand .
- Right-click the disk pool and select Jobs.
After you have identified the jobs using an independent disk pool that you want to make unavailable, you have several options for each job:
- End the job. Be sure to consider the affect this action may have before ending a job. This may not be a good idea in some cases. See Ending a job for details.
- Let the job run to completion. If the job appears to be processing normally, you can wait until the job runs to completion.
- Diagnose and recover a poorly performing or hung job. If the job does not appear to be running, determine if the job is hung or is performing slowly. See the Work management troubleshooting topic for tips on diagnosing and handling problematic jobs.
- Release held jobs or threads.
Use the Work
with ASP Jobs (WRKASPJOB) command. when an independent disk pool is
unavailable to identify any jobs that hold locks on objects in the disk pool.