Hi Mike,
The field engineer released the prior open configuration and set up the new configuration based on the volume sizes and and device address ranges that I wanted to use. He set that that up at the hardware. It took quite a while for the hardware processes to run. That was all done prior to IPLing (we don't do dynamic here) with the new IODF I built . We do share the box with open systems. I don't know if I could have done the hardware configuration or not, but it seemed like a good thing to leave to the field engineer, especially with other production systems already up and running on it. HTH, Linda ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Myers" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 11:09:46 AM Subject: Re: Shark configuration Mike: That did get rid of the disk groups and volumes. Thank you very much. Now comes part 2, which is to configure the disk groups as CKD and to assign volumes and PAVs. The one problem I am seeing now is that there still seems to be no mechanism for creating a new LCU. I am only seeing the 4 that were there previously. When I go to try to configure a storage group on the S/390 side, I am told I have to select an LCU from the list provided. I want instead to add 4-6 new LCUs and then assign these storage groups to them. I know that LCUs get defined in the HCD process for the IOCDS and IODF, but to make that a requirement for configuring the shark doesn't make much sense, unless a POR would "push" those definitions to the shark. It seems much more rational to me that the LCU definitions would be first made in the shark and then connect to the host after a POR. Any ideas? Mike Myers Pitt County Memorial Hospital Greenville, NC >>> "Mike Schwab" <[email protected]> 6/16/2011 1:02 PM >>> I think they did not delete the volumes on the Open System side. Click on the Storage button on the left. Click on the Open system button at the bottom. You have to go through and set the disk groups back to undefined to delete the volumes / raid arrays. It then takes quite a while to format the volumes. 2 hours for 72GB drives, a little less for smaller drives (but not half the time because they are slower). After the formatting is done, click on the Storage button on the left and you should be able able to see undefined 8-packs. Once you click on an 8 pack on the S/390 side, you can assign it to one of two LCUs. On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Mike Myers <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm looking for some help configuring some storage on an F20 model ESS box. > > We have just been given a substantial amount of disk space in one of our > sharks. The storage had previously been configured as open system storage. > Now we want to convert it to S/390 storage and use it for our z/OS system. > > When I view the storage allocation, I can see that the storage shows up as > mostly unassigned (some fragments are unallocated). > > What I am trying to do is create a few LCUs to which I can assign the space > as 3390-9 volumes. However, in the LCU table, only the 4 LCUs that address > the S/390 storage presently in the box appear. No table entries appear for > un-configured LCUs. I can't find any mechanism that permits me to add an LCU, > even though the documentation says that I can have as many as 16 LCUs. > > Has anyone with experience with shark configuration point me in the right > direction? Am I going to have to use the "batch configurator" to do this? If > so, where do I find documentation and how do I access it? > > Mike Myers > Pitt County Memorial Hospital > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > The contents of this e-mail (and any attachments) are confidential, may be > privileged and may contain copyright material. You may only reproduce or > distribute material if you are expressly authorized by us to do so. If you > are not the intended recipient, any use, disclosure or copying of this email > (and any attachments) is unauthorized. 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