R.S. wrote: <snip>
The notable exception is z/OS COD - Customized Offering Driver. While it can be IPL-ed from both DVD and ftp, the next activity is to restore DVD content to CKD disk and the source has to be DVD.
Actually, you can *install* the COD from DVD, but z/OS itself is IPLed from CKD disk. Only the copy of Standalone ICKDSF that comes with the COD is IPLed from the DVD. Also, we do not support Internet delivery for the COD today.
There are at least two reasons why z/OS does not get IPLed from DVD. One is that even the COD's z/OS subset is too large to fit on a DVD. A full copy of z/OS, of course, is even larger. The second is that we'd need significant changes to IPL from the DVD- or another HMC file system-based IPL process. It might be feasible, but I have not looked at that and currently do not plan to look at it. It's far below other things on my personal list of things to make easier.
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