On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 7:35 AM, John Eells <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > -- > John Eells > IBM Poughkeepsie > [email protected] > How about a bare bones z/OS starter system? To let you ICKDSF your disk volumes and restore from your backup. Or create zFS file systems and download the software to there.
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