When we had VM-only machines, the z/OS people had a way of doing HCD updates through the HMC. They didn't send any files to VM. I don't know the details on how that's done.
Dennis "If I could not go to heaven but with a [political] party, I would not go there at all." -- Thomas Jefferson From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Schuh, Richard Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 13:51 To: [email protected] Subject: [IBMVM] HCD 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 * MVS will create the production IODF * 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 * use the Export command on the z/OS HCD using the production IODF. This should contain the hardware token. * FTP the file to CBDSACT user id under VM. * 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." TIA, Richard Schuh
