Hi Richard, you also have the possibility to ftp a file direct into the Reader of a VM Guest. There is a parameter RDR in the ftp-server configfile SRVFTP.CONFIG.
You can check with the commands q hcd if you can change dynamic a iocp / iodf q hcd 06:32:05 HCD is currently active: IODF = IODFBD PRODIODF HCD is enabled for dynamic hardware changes HCD is controlling the software configuration: OSCONFIG ID = IZV4 HCD recovery is not currently required and with the command q token you can read the token of the activ IODF. q token 06:33:13 The target HCD configuration token is: CPUWB .......m................10-01-1310:38:05SYSS IODFBD With the command cbdsact iodfxy * * * (test you can test an activate of a IODF in z/VM. Kind regards, Alexander ________________________________ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Schuh, Richard Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 10:51 PM To: [email protected] Subject: 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
