The z/VM 5.3 announcement letter states that it includes HyperPAV support for IBM System Storage DS8000. So - if you have a DS8000, then you have the dynamic PAV support. However, as far as I know, 5.3 does not virtualize HyperPAV, so a guest can't use it directly, although it can take advantage of VM's use of it for minidisk I/O.
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Imler, Steven J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alan, > > I suppose the reason you say "Before you go to all that work ..." is > because z/VM (unfortunately) does *not* support dynamic PAV. Which > means the only way you can leverage or take advantage of PAV on z/VM is > to hard code the PAV aliases in the DASD subsystem. > > (This is the reason we no longer have access to PAV volumes on our z/VM > systems ... because no one wants to do the work configure the DASD > subsystem when z/OS will do this all dynamically.) > > JR (Steven) Imler > CA > Senior Software Engineer > Tel: +1 703 708 3479 > Fax: +1 703 708 3267 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Bruce Hayden Linux on System z Advanced Technical Support IBM, Endicott, NY
