On 12/4/2015 11:26 PM, Tony Harminc wrote:
Your box has a floppy drive? Really?
The SE does yes.
Just so I'm clear... Your z890 plugs in to your SCSI disk box, but it won't
IPL from it? That is, these are separate features? If I have this right,
then it should be possible to write a small program that could, at worst,
be keyed in to storage. This program would then perform the I/O
instructions to emulate the SCSI IPL. Sort of like the way VM emulates IPL
in a virtual machine. Well maybe this is just what FC 9904 does...
So let me explain how everything is attached:
I have an old HP SCSI hard drive array attached to a SAN Data Gateway
model 2108-G07.
Then I have that go into a SAN switch via SW FCP connection SAN switch
is model 2005-b16.
Finally I have a LW fiber SFP in one of the ports of the SAN switch
which then goes into the mainframe through a FICON-LX module.
The FICON port is configured as an FCP interface in the IOCDS.
I am not sure how one would go about writing such code as I am so new to
all this but I will say that it sounds feasible...
I just came across this though:
http://linuxvm.org/present/SHARE104/S9259vs.pdf
Which mentions some tools specifically "zipl" which sounds like it may
be-able to help me?
Found it available to download here along with quite a few other tools:
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/s390-tools-overview.html
I must get to bed now and will be out this weekend, but I will
definitely look into this late next week after my finals at college.
-Connor K
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