COD?? Sounds .... fishy to me (sorry) Chris Hoelscher Technology Architect, Database Infrastructure Services Technology Solution Services Humana Inc. 123 East Main Street Louisville, KY 40202 Humana.com (502) 476-2538 or 407-7266
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Eells Sent: Friday, March 2, 2018 10:47 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] Install z/OS from DVD Beesley, Paul wrote: > We are setting up a z/Next mainframe on a greenfield site and want to be able > to install z/OS from a DVD. > Back in 2016, Mark Post said.. > “Coming soon will be the ability to IPL _and_ install directly from the HMC > DVD drive. It'll be a slow as !@$$ but it won't require an installation > server somewhere. You'll still need to connect _into_ the system over the > network to complete the install (via SSH or VNC) of course. Even that could > be avoided if you set up a custom DVD that points to an autoinst.xml file on > the DVD itself and use VNC as the installation method. Completely unattended > install without a net. :)” > > Has ‘soon’ arrived yet? Or are we still looking at using a Customised > Offering Driver? <snip> You will need to use the COD. Although Linux and z/VM can be IPLed from DVD, z/OS must IPL from attached (ECKD) DASD. It does not now and will likely not any time soon support IPLed from anywhere in the HMC file system, including DVD. Based on that, the DVD-based installation process involves the Customized Offerings Driver (which we affectionately call the COD). Standalone DFSMSdss, which can be IPLed from the HMC's DVD drive, was changed a while back to support restoring disk volumes from DVD files. The COD z/OS system is restored using DFSMSdss and then IPLed. (You can optionally use standalone ICKDSF to verify target volume labels and INIT the volumes before restoring them, but we taught DFSMSdss to be a bit smarter a while back so this is no longer a required step.) The restores run reasonably quickly, though I don't have current numbers. When we first planned this support we thought it would take a lot longer than it actually does, because we--well, I (blush)--forgot that we dumped the COD systems with the COMPRESS keyword, which reduces the HMC-to-DASD data transfer time significantly. If I recall correctly, the entire process from DFSMSdss IPL to z/OS IPL only takes a few hours. In turn, the COD z/OS system supports installing the z/OS you actually want from direct download to z/OS (if you have connectivity at the site) or by transferring files from a workstation to the z/OS UNIX file system, whether they were downloaded or are also on DVD. You can install a new copy of z/OS using ServerPac (if you are sane) or CBPDO (if you aren't); the COD supports both. It might also be possible to use the FTP-based IPL available on z14 and later HMCs for DFSMSdss and FTP file access for the restores, with the files on your workstation (set up as an FTP server), which I am told should work, but which we have not explicitly tested. That might or might not be faster than restoring from DVD, depending on where the bottleneck is in the effective data transfer rate. Speaking for myself, though, restores from DVD would certainly have been done for quite a while while I was still fiddling with the FTP configuration and physical connections for this IPL path, but YMMV. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain CONFIDENTIAL material. If you receive this material/information in error, please contact the sender and delete or destroy the material/information. Humana Inc. and its subsidiaries comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability or sex. Humana Inc. and its subsidiaries do not exclude people or treat them differently because of race, color, national origin, age, disability or sex. English: ATTENTION: If you do not speak English, language assistance services, free of charge, are available to you. Call 1‐877‐320‐1235 (TTY: 711). Español (Spanish): ATENCIÓN: Si habla español, tiene a su disposición servicios gratuitos de asistencia lingüística. Llame al 1‐877‐320‐1235 (TTY: 711). 繁體中文(Chinese)：注意：如果您使用繁體中文，您可以免費獲得語言援助 服務。請致電 1‐877‐320‐1235 (TTY: 711)。 Kreyòl Ayisyen (Haitian Creole): ATANSION: Si w pale Kreyòl Ayisyen, gen sèvis èd pou lang ki disponib gratis pou ou. Rele 1‐877‐320‐1235 (TTY: 711). Polski (Polish): UWAGA: Jeżeli mówisz po polsku, możesz skorzystać z bezpłatnej pomocy językowej. Zadzwoń pod numer 1‐877‐320‐1235 (TTY: 711). 한국어 (Korean): 주의: 한국어를 사용하시는 경우, 언어 지원 서비스를 무료로 이용하실 수 있습니다. 1‐877‐320‐1235 (TTY: 711)번으로 전화해 주십시오. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
