I thought so too .   It’s something in the configuration and I’ll futz with 
them.  Thought it might be a gotcha answer.

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Matt Hogstrom

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time.”
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> On Dec 6, 2024, at 11:05, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
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> Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
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> 
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> Sent: Friday, December 6, 2024 10:36 AM
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> Subject: Re: z/OS Devices under z/VM
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> External Message: Use Caution
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> 
> 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
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>> 
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>> 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?
>> 
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>> Matt Hogstrom
>> 
>> “To achieve great things two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough 
>> time.”
>> - Leonard Bernstein
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