I am so jealous. On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 11:48 PM, william degnan <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > >> Congratulations! Mainframes are fun! > > > > Thanks and yes they are :) > > > >> One does not boot a mainframe; one IPLs it. :) > > > > I totally knew this but somehow forgot such terminology while writing > this email. *facepalm* > > > >> I can't advise you as to the other boxes. From my Linux experience on > mainframe I can say it doesn't seem to boo... IPL any differently to any > other mainframe OS. If you can define the device to the mainframe and issue > an IPL command, you *should* be able to IPL anything I think? > > > > Hm ok, I will have to do some more research on the storage front then. > > What I have been told is that you can IPL Linux over a SAN but not any > IBM OS. > > But if IPLing shouldn't be any different then maybe you can't IPL from a > SAN at all which I wouldn't be surprised at. > > > > -Connor K > > Check the OS defaults of the SAN networking software layer. My instinct is > AIX might play a part here. > -- Gary G. Sparkes Jr. KB3HAG
