Hi Tom,
>I found this forum post, which says you can have one HMCS console per
>z/OS image (WTW).
I have this in my (shared) CONSOLxx:
CONSOLE DEVNUM(HMCS) NAME(HMCS) AUTH(MASTER) ROUTCODE(ALL)
INTIDS(Y) LEVEL(ALL) UNKNIDS(Y)
I had assumed that this definition would give me one HMCS per system in the
4-way sysplex, but that does not seem to be the case:
D C,F,CN=HMCS
CNZ4100I 16.02.52 CONSOLE DISPLAY 102
CONSOLES MATCHING COMMAND: D C,F,CN=HMCS
MSG:CURR=0 LIM=2000 RPLY:CURR=15 LIM=99 SYS=KFW2 PFK=00
HMCS TYPE=HMCS STATUS=STDBY-xxx4
DEFINED=(xxx4)
MATCHED=(xxx4)
ATTRIBUTES ON xxx4
AUTH=(MASTER) CMDSYS=* NBUF=0 SUPSBY=Y
DEV=NONE LOGON=OPTIONAL USERID=N/A
MFORM=(M) AREA=(Z,A) PFKTAB=*DEFAULT
USE=FC DEL=RD RTME=2 RNUM=5 SEG=19 CON=N
LEVEL=(ALL)
MONITOR=(NONE) INTIDS=Y UNKNIDS=Y
ROUT=(ALL)
MSCOPE=(*ALL)
In a 3 or 4-way sysplex, I see no way to tell z/OS to use *one* HMCS per
*system*, much less how to specify which system should have which HMCS console
assigned if I were to specify a different name (which I am not sure that I can,
hence my question).
This was the first system to be IPL'd on the z13, and I am unable to open a
second HMCS in that sysplex. No attention generating thing I can think of gets
me the HMCS to the other system. (And it would work on a z196 with z/OS 2.1, so
it is not the old hardware.)
In the other sysplex there was one system that was IPL'd on the z13 using the
HMCS, but we had to go back to the old hardware. This time around we moved a
different system from that sysplex to the z13, so that console named HMCS was
still defined to the other system. While the HMCS worked fine during NIP for
the second system, it stopped working once NIP was over. I am able to delete
that HMCS console definition, but now no HMCS console works. I did not see a
way to get *the* HMCS attached to a different 'owning' system.
So FWIW, I very much doubt that one HMCS per z/OS image can be activated. It
seems to me (from what I remember when I did console support, admittedly before
console restructure) that we are talking about one HMCS console per sysplex.
That's why I am asking here.
Best regards, Barbara
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