In a message dated 4/20/2007 11:03:54 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Is there any macro to retrieve DASD box serial #?
Yes. Use UCBINFO with the GETCDR parameter. This will return to your program the Configuration Data Record (CDR). It will be 256 bytes long. The box serial # is in the CDR data. The format of the 256 bytes returned is described in the control unit reference manual (2105, 3990, etc.). You have to make sure you are looking at the correct 32-byte Node Element Descriptor (NED) within those 256 bytes. There are possibly eight different NEDs in the 256 bytes, and more than one has a serial number in it. It depends on exactly what you mean by "box". Study the control unit book's description. Bill Fairchild Plainfield, IL "Today it's oil, right? ... Ask them when they're running out. Ask them when there's no heat in their homes and they're cold. ... They won't want us to ask them. They'll just want us to get it for them." [Higgins to Turner in 1975 movie Three Days of the Condor] ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
