Hello Jim,
Thanks for the info. The problem for us is that we are on z/VM
4.3.
I am starting to get more info as to what I need and the like.
Just found out that OSA is not on this machine. That causes
some other problems but I will work around those too.
Ed Martin
Aultman Health Foundation
330-588-4723
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ext. 40441
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On
>> Behalf Of Jim Bohnsack
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 1:26 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: mp3000
>>
>> Ed--Thanks for opening up this subject train, because we will
probably be
>> going to a z/890 next January. I'm on z/VM 4.4 which I (think I)
know is
>> 31 bit/64 bit capable. I also "think" that the z series is 64 bit
>> architecture only that, as I understand, will tolerate 31 bit code,
but
>> at
>> the very basic level when CP ipl's, it is in a 64 bit box, so to come
up
>> on
>> the z/890, I'll have to be ipling the 64 bit nuc that gets built.
Right
>> now, I just throw away the CPLOAD64 MODULE that gets built when I
build a
>> new nuc. Then I copy CPLOAD32 to my parm disks as CPLOAD. I guess
I'll
>> need to start keeping the bigger CPLOAD MODULE. If I am correct, the
nuc
>> will come up in 64 bit mode but it will appear to my 31 bit code that
>> nothing has changed--right? I hope that there are no gotcha's in the
64
>> bit code path because I won't have any way to test it until the new
(old)
>> box rolls in the door. My co-worker was just in my office and
insists
>> that
>> the z-hardware initially ipls in 31 bit mode. If that is really the
>> case,
>> I shouldn't even have to change from the CPLOAD32 MODULE I'm running.
>>
>> For the dasd upgrade, you may be lucky enough to do what I saw done
about
>> 5
>> years ago. The system I supported was on some kind of IBM dasd,
either
>> RAMAC or early SHARK, and we were changing to either EMC or Hitachi
(the
>> memory is the 2nd thing to go and I don't remember the 1st).
Whatever we
>> were changing to had microcode in the control unit that, under the
>> covers,
>> and completely from control unit to control unit, migrated the dasd
from
>> the old to the new. It was sort of like doing a flash copy where the
>> target is kept in sync with the original.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> At 11:20 AM 3/28/2006, you wrote:
>> >Hello Everyone,
>> >
>> > The Serve support appendix show that z/VM 4.4 will run on
the
>> >MP3000
>> >/z800/z900 in basic mode and the z890/z990 in LPAR mode.
>> >
>> > We are on z/VM 4.3 and was wondering if anyone has run z/VM
4.3
>> >on
>> >any of these boxes (unsupported of course).
>> >
>> >Ed Martin
>> >Aultman Health Foundation
>> >330-588-4723
>> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >ext. 40441
>>
>> Jim Bohnsack
>> Cornell Univ.
>> (607) 255-1760
