On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 16:15:28 -0600, Barry Merrill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>There is a recent change that changed the meaning of the LPAR Number in SMF records: > > APAR II13668 said that after z990s, LPARNUM (SMF70LPN) was no longer a > static identifier, but instead is now a system generated number of the > alphabetical location of the LPAR name, and the LPARNUM of an LPAR will > change when you add a new LPAR with a lower-sorted LPAR Name. > On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:30:37 -0600, Mark Zelden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >I found this out when we went to z990s in Sept. 2004. As far as I >can tell now, there are 3 values. IPLINFO used to only report the PR/SM >partition number from the CSD control block (#1), which I think is the >same thing SHOWMVS displays. On z990/z890/z9 this may or may not be >the same thing as what you define in the profile for the LPAR on the >HMC(#2) - which is stored in ECVTLPNM. Then there is the MIF ID that >you define in the IODF (#3). > >You can control #2 and #3, I don't think there is a way to control >#1 (which is not GUPI anyway). > Ahhh, so you can control #1! Just make the hardware names match alphabetically with the lpar number in the HMC image profile. :-) Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America and Farmers Insurance Group mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
