Hi George, it sounds good. I will look into that.
Do you happen to have a copy of the IOCP source for your MP2003-205 handy. It would be greatly appreciated if you can post it or send me a copy for reference. Thanks a lot in advance.
Regards,
...Roland
George Haddad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
George Haddad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Our 2003-205 can be IMLed to do Dynamic I/O. We never did implement that
feature --- we just never made many I/O changes over the yrs -- so I
don't know if that negates the need for an inital IOCDS load or not.
Jim Bohnsack wrote:
> It's been quite a while since I worked at that level but I didn't
> (don't) think that CP is going to be able to sense anything that isn't
> defined in the active IOCDS. It seems to me that was why I used to
> have to give a tape to the CE to load a basic IOCDS that would be
> enough to start with.
>
> I hope I'm wrong.
> Jim
>
> At 11:38 AM 6/15/2006, you wrote:
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>> Hi Peter, that is what I will do.
>>
>> Just talked to the hardware installer. No, he is not going to
>> create a basic IOCP for us. But, he agreed to format the Shark for us
>> to emulate 3390-3. He will also leave us a list on what CHPID the
>> devices are connected to.
>>
>> I have managed to create a standalone IPLable tape with ICKDSF and
>> DDR before they took down the Hitachi. I would format the needed
>> DASDs and restore the CP OWNED volumns - 4 of them. Then I will try
>> to IPL VM. At that stage, I can use all 6 tape drives to restore the
>> other 60 DASDs. Hopefully, I can re-IPL to bring up the full VM system.
>>
>> Since CP would sense all the devices, I think I can use the
>> DCPRDEVS utility to build a file of all real devices on the system.
>> From there, I can build the final IOCS file and put it back to the
>> service element using the IOCP command.
>>
>> Thanks for your suggestions. Regards,
>>
>> ...Roland
