I never saw a reply to Lizette's post. We also have an interest in the same topic. We want to encourage members of the technical staff to manage our sandbox LPARs rather than pester--er, request--Operations to shut down/IPL systems that 'we' own. The problem is how to allow these folks to manage sandbox LPARs only. Using our fine automation product together with the V XCF...REIPL command, they can reIPL a system on their own. Or we can write our own IPL command that does a SAF check before calling BCPII to do the deed.
The difficulty occurs when a system is not currently running and/or when the sysres volume needs to be switched from its last used value to a different one. We have not found a way for BCPII to even query the current IPL profile, let alone switch to an alternate profile. Without this capability, we cannot insist that our folks do their own laundry. . . JO.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile [email protected] From: Lizette Koehler <[email protected]> To: [email protected], Date: 12/06/2012 02:52 PM Subject: BCPII and activation profile Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> I have a friend who is wondering if there examples of a HWI BCPII that can alter the activation profile. He has some ec12s, and z114s, on z/OS V1.13 - Fairly current on most hardware as they have recently gone through a hardware upgrade which includes DS800's. Thanks Lizette ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
