On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:25:55 -0800, Skip Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm anxious for more posts on this topic. We don't yet have a z9, but I >thought that one of the selling points was being able to define 'dummy' >LPARs in advance, then make them 'real' as needed by 'renaming' and >assigning memory, CPs, and I/O connections, all without a POR. > >Am I missing something in the z9 or in the original question? > >. It's available with a z990 and z/OS 1.6 or above. But you have to plan. It involves defining an LPAR with a name of "*" as a placeholder. See "Defining reserved partitions" in the HCD manual(s). No, I haven't done it yet. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS 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

