On Tuesday, 07/20/2010 at 04:51 EDT, "Schuh, Richard" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have a colleague whose background is MVS and hardware. She is having trouble > trying to do the following: > > Have all IOCP decks controlled from MVS > > o MVS will create the production IODF > o MVS will write the iocds file into the proper SE slot on the MVS machines > > On the machines that only have VM, no z/OS, have the VM lpar to do the Dynamic > activation without having to POR. > > > She thinks the gist of the process is > > o use the Export command on the z/OS HCD using the production IODF. This should > contain the hardware token. > o FTP the file to CBDSACT user id under VM. > o Import the file using the CBDIODSP > > At this point, she hits a snag because the import expects a reader file. Is > that solved simply by SPOOL PUN * followed by PUN fn ft fm (NOH or is some > other format required? > > There is one final problem, "I still need to know how to get VM to do the > dynamic activations using the CBDSACT rexx utility using the exported file from > MVS."
I would run HCD on the VM-only machines and use the import function. It is HCD that examines the differences between the old and new IODFs and issues the dynamic activations. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
