Thanks Alan,
My boss built the IODF on one of our z/OS LPARs. That's probably why we're
having a "documentation disconnect". "E-debris"?! I got'a remember to use
that one.
Yeah, we shook our heads too on no support. But this is normal University
researcher mentality. We'll keep plugging along until we get the thing up.
Thanks again,
Bruce
Bruce Heckler
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-----Original Message-----
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Alan Altmark
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 10:15 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: z/VM and DS6000 Disks
On Tuesday, 03/31/2009 at 11:27 EDT, "Heckler, Bruce" <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Apparently when you define a string in IODF it builds a string as type
FCP.
> Then it builds another string type FBASCSI which has the LUN, ..., and
> references back to the same offset FCP address. The burning question is
when
> you plug in addresses to initialize the sysres and such, which set do
you use?
> If I were doing this myself, I'd keep plugging until I found something
that
> works. But this machine is locked in a different computer room, I don't
have
> access, access time, and some other compounding limitations. You're
right, the
> Install Guide is standard IBM dull but accurate. However, the naming
> conventions are a bit confusing between what IODF, INSTDVD, and the
Install
> manual are using (at least how I read it). The rest of the install is
very
> simple.
Just so you know, z/VM doesn't know or care about the "e-debris"(usually
UNIT=) that z/OS puts in an IODF. That "FBASCSI" thing isn't in the IOCP
manual and z/VM doesn't require it. We simply require that you define an
FCP CHPID and some number of IODEVICEs on that chpid.
EDEVICE <edev> TYPE FBA .... FCP_DEVICE <iodevice> ...
All installation references to a real FBA device are a reference to an
<edev>.
> Last, I'd LOVE to open a PMR. But the Fine Arts folk who own this box
bought
> it on a shoestring (read: "No Support Contract").
Note that it also means you cannot upgrade your z/VM for free. Any future
upgrade will require payment of the OTC fees again.
Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott
