James,
I use the "Load from Removable Media or Server" function on the HMC frequently,
for many purposes. We run z9s, z10s and z196s. I always access HMCs via their
web interfaces.
All of our mainframes are in two sites 17 miles apart. They are mirrors of each
other and except by special permission, no one is allowed in these buildings.
They are patroled by armed guards.
I usually load from an FTP server, I have IPLed from a DVD drive on an HMC, on
occasion.
I don't have any problems, so I don't understand your question.
What problems are you having?
I can send screen shots, if you tell me what you're trying to do.
Harry
> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 18:54:41 +0000
> From: james-l...@tamu.edu
> Subject: LOAD from ... SERVER option?
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
>
> Howdy,
>
> So, where to start...
> We have a co-located machine we are setting up for DR (CBU). In short, it is
> a warm site until we declare an official (or test) disaster and "make" it a
> hot site. Virtual tape system there is grid'ed to one locally, so tape
> backups are no more than 24 hours old. The restore plan is to populate disk
> when a disaster is declared. The co-located HMC is accessible locally over
> its web interface. The SE's are only accessible over the back-end network it
> shares with its HMC (you'll understand the significance of this later).
>
> In the case of a "live" scenario, we'd hop in our cars and drive the 3 hours
> to the site to be in front of the hardware to do our recovery. I'm looking
> for a way to avoid this long trip in the case of testing and maintenance of
> the co-located environment. For example, each time our local environment
> changes (ie. disk structure, new version of utility software, etc.), we would
> like to propagate this change to the co-located machine's environment (reduce
> configuration when we *really* need to do a disaster recovery - reality or
> testing). For example, we might change some disk from 3390-9 to 3390-15 to
> accommodate a new zFS sizing need. Also, as new ICKDSF and/or FDRSAR
> utilities become available, we'd like to get them to this site without a
> physical visit. Storing these utilities in a locally and remotely accessible
> place would be helpful (FTP server).
>
> With that said -
> I have been looking into the "LOAD from Removable Media or Server" option
> available for remotely using these utilities, but, for lack of documentation,
> I'm unable to get the environment setup properly. Has anyone had success
> using an FTP server as a LOAD source?
>
> I do have a PMH opened with IBM (15964,004). They are telling me my SEs need
> to be on the same network as the locally-accessible FTP server (we're not
> comfortable doing this and were under the impression it was a *bad* thing to
> do). We are looking for a better explanation, or even a better method to
> manage these utilities.
>
> Thanks for listening.
>
> Regards,
> James Lund
> Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
> Home of Johnny Heisman
>
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