Les,
It would be a Good Thing to have all needed program materials
available on the DVDs, including the associated VM products. And/or
available for download.
Motivation: Tape drives are the least reliable part of our
operation. (Admittedly we have some pretty old 3494s and pretty old
3590 drives. We're experiencing a 3494 failure as I type this.) We
would like to move to a virtual tape environment with no real tape
drives. This isn't quite feasible here yet for reasons besides IBM
software distribution, but we hope it will be feasible soon.
Mark Bodenstein ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Cornell University
At 01:53 PM 10/10/2008, you wrote:
>I've done the initial install of 5.4 using the DVD and I've installed
>the RSU. If I were installing from tape at this point, I would mount
>the program product tape(s) and continue the installation as per the
>program directories of the other programs for which we are licensed but
>don't come as part of the SDO. There were only 2 DVD's shipped, the
>product DVD and the RSU DVD.
>
>Specifically, I need to install HLASM in order to install RACF/VM. I've
>got HLASM 1.5 that I put on the 5.4 system, but there should be a HLASM
>1.6. It's listed on the ship list, as is VTAM and DFSMS. Directory
>entries were not created for them. Nothing was loaded. Where do I find
>them. I have the tapes, but I'm working remotely. I can have someone
>throw the product tape onto a drive, but it seems as if it ought to be
>on the DVD.
One the base z/VM product and RSU1 are available on DVD. When you order
other products like VTAM, DFSMS, and HLASM, they will come as part of
the SDO but on 3590 or 3592 tapes only.
So if you ordered them, but no tapes showed up, I would open a PMR
with the support center and have them investigate why. Have your
bill of material sheet ready to fax into IBM.
Best Regards,
Les Geer
IBM z/VM and Linux Development
