You can certainly load and activate an IOCDS dynamically from another machine in the complex, and I see no reason why the VM dynamic sense would not work.
(I normally load and activate HCD configs across 3 machines from one single one - and those images also contain VM images) ________________________________ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of O'Brien, Dennis L Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 12:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Using HCD on an IFL-only Machine Mark, I honestly don't remember if we had to POR. We haven't had z/VM on 2064's for quite awhile now. With 2084 and later machines, we've always had at least one LPAR running z/OS on each box. I don't think that's a policy, it's just the way things have worked out. Dennis "See, I'm a man of simple tastes. I like dynamite, and gunpowder... And gasoline! Do you know what all of these things have in common? They're cheap!" -- Heath Ledger as The Joker, in The Dark Knight From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Wheeler Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 11:40 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [IBMVM] Using HCD on an IFL-only Machine Dennis, Did this process include dynamic changes, or did you have to POR to pick them up? Thanks! Mark Wheeler UnitedHealth Group ________________________________ Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:53:17 -0800 From: dennis.l.o'[email protected] Subject: Re: Using HCD on an IFL-only Machine To: [email protected] We used to have z/VM-only machines here. The IOCP was maintained by the z/OS people using HCD. They had a method of using the HMC to import the configuration into the z/VM machine. We didn't use an IODF, just an IOCP. These were 2064's in basic mode, but I would imagine that the process still works for newer machines. I don't know a lot about the process, but I know that none of it involved software or files on z/VM. The HMC talked to both machines, and loaded the IOCDS files without operating system involvement. Dennis O'Brien ________________________________ Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. Get it now.<http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469228/direct/01/> "Email Firewall" made the following annotations. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Warning: All e-mail sent to this address will be received by the corporate e-mail system, and is subject to archival and review by someone other than the recipient. This e-mail may contain proprietary information and is intended only for the use of the intended recipient(s). If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient(s), you are notified that you have received this message in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately. ==============================================================================
