Adding, deleting, or modifying resources

Provisioning Guide for Mainframe Systems for VSP One Block 85

Version

10.5.x

Audience

anonymous

Part Number

MK-26VSP1B034-02

ft:lastEdition

2026-05-04

The following table shows use cases to add, delete, or modify storage resources.

Item	Use case	CCI	VSP One Block Administrator	REST API
Item	Use case	CCI	VSP One Block Administrator	Detailed API	Simple API
Volume¹	Obtain volume information (raidcom get ldev)	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
	View the ESE-VOL or pool information by using the LISTDATA command of the IDCAMS utility²	Not available	Not available	Not available	Not available
	Create a volume (raidcom add ldev)	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
	Delete a volume (raidcom delete ldev)	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
	Format a volume (raidcom initialize ldev)	Yes	No	Yes	No
	Format by specifying a parity group (raidcom initialize parity_grp)	Yes	No	Yes	No
	Suspend volume formatting (raidcom initialize ldev)	Yes	No	Yes	No
	Change the volume settings (raidcom modify ldev)	Yes	No	Yes	No
	Change the MP unit allocation settings (raidcom modify system)	Yes	No	No	No
	Change the MP unit assigned to a volume (raidcom modify ldev)	Yes	No	Yes	No
	Expand V-VOL capacity (raidcom extend ldev)	Yes	No	Yes	No
	Change a volume name (raidcom modify ldev)	Yes	No	Yes	No
	Set the volume access attributes (raidvchkset)	Yes	No	No	No
	Set VTOC area size³	Not available	Not available	Not available	Not available
	Enable or disable the ESE attribute of a DP-VOL	Yes⁴	No	Yes⁴	No
	Enable or disable use of an ESE-VOL and the User Directed Space Release feature (raidcom modify mainframe_system_function)	Yes	Yes⁵	No	No
Adding or deleting a pool	Obtain pool information (raidcom get pool/raidcom get dp_pool)	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
	Create a pool (by specifying a parity group) (raidcom add dp_pool)	Yes	No	No	No
	Create a pool (by specifying an LDEV) (raidcom add dp_pool)	Yes	No	Yes	No
	Delete a pool (raidcom delete pool)	Yes	No	Yes	No
Pool capacity management	Change the pool subscription limit (raidcom modify pool)	Yes	No	Yes	No
	Change the threshold of pool usage rate (raidcom modify pool)	Yes	No	Yes	No
	Release a page from a V-VOL (raidcom modify ldev)	Yes	No	Yes	No
	Stop releasing a page from a V-VOL (raidcom modify ldev)	Yes	No	No	No
	Change the Full Allocation setting (raidcom modify ldev)	Yes	No	Yes	No
	Complete a SIM	No	Yes	No	No
Pool capacity expansion or shrinking	Expand pool capacity (by specifying a parity group) (raidcom add dp_pool)	Yes	No	No	No
	Expand pool capacity (by specifying an LDEV) (raidcom add dp_pool)	Yes	No	Yes	No
	Shrink pool capacity (raidcom delete pool)	Yes	No	Yes	No
	Stop shrinking pool capacity (raidcom modify pool)	Yes	No	No	No
Pool Maintenance	Unblock a pool (raidcom modify pool)	Yes	No	Yes	No
Pool Maintenance	Change a pool name (raidcom rename pool)	Yes	No	Yes	No
Parity group	Obtain parity group information (raidcom get parity_grp)	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Notes: By using VSP One Block Administrator, you can perform operations only on V-VOLs (DP-VOLs). The operations on normal volumes, external volumes, or intermediate volumes cannot be performed. This use case does not use management tools. If you need to set the size of the VTOC area, contact customer support. When enabling or disabling the ESE attribute of a DP-VOL, some preparatory work is required. When the DKCMAIN microcode version is A0-05-41-x0 or later, you can change the settings using VSP One Block Administrator.