Alan Altmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:-

>> Pop quiz:

>> For those of you who have multiple boxes (CECs) sharing devices, do you 

>> assign the same device number in the IOCDS to the device for each CEC?

>> Example:  Given a shared 3390 volume, if it is known as device number 
800 
>> on CEC A, do you assign it device number 800 on CEC B?

>> If you don't do that, what device numbering scheme do you use?

We have a very large number of CEC's in our installation, many of which 
share DASD (and other devices).

We made a decision at the dawn of time that any device would only have 1 
identity (address) in the whole installation. We also had some other 
constraints related to the device address range that TPF could use for 
consoles and tapes. We would plan ranges for different types of device 
and, within that, the address ranges for different devices.

Unfortunately, with the recent explosion of the amount of DASD, we no 
longer have sufficient device addresses in the range 0000-FFFF to give 
each device a unique address so there is some replacement of DASD ranges. 
You can imagine - we have to be very careful !!

Colin Allinson

Amadeus Data Processing GmbH




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