ATTACH? The whole point of making them minidisks is that you don't need to attach them. Just edit the directory to include them where they belong.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Matt Hogstrom <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 6, 2024 10:36 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: z/OS Devices under z/VM External Message: Use Caution They work fine once I manually attach them. I’m looking for the magic to have z/VM IPL, the guests come up and immediately have access to the devices without manually intervention. I can hack my way through z/VM but I’m not expert in that space. -- Matt Hogstrom “To achieve great things two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time.” - Leonard Bernstein > On Dec 6, 2024, at 10:14, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: > > Full pack minidisks worked fine for me in VM/SE (SEPP); I see no reason why > they wouldn't work in z/VM. > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי > נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר > > > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of > Matt Hogstrom <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, December 6, 2024 10:09 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: z/OS Devices under z/VM > > External Message: Use Caution > > > I have a z/VM system where I’m running three guests in a SYSPLEX. I added > some DASD that is shared across the three guests (this is all running in ZD&T > which I don’t think is relevant). I can access the devices if I ATTach them > to the z/os guests but that is a manual process. All the other DASD for the > systems is automatically picked up. > > Is there a mechanism in z/VM that I need to do outside the directory to > automatically connect the new devices to the guests. After a guest logs out > and then subsequently re-ipl’d I need to re-attach the devices. > > Thoughts? > > -- > Matt Hogstrom > > “To achieve great things two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough > time.” > - Leonard Bernstein > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
