On Friday, 12/20/2002 at 08:50 EST, Daniel Jarboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > RH 7.2 in an LPAR. Currently connected to network via CTC to z/OS > gateway. > We'd like to try out the OSA-Express card with the linux LPAR. It's in > QDIO mode, and is being used by one other z/OS LPAR right now. > > According to the Large Scale Linux Deployment redbook (sg246824), on > page 79-80 (97-98 in the pdf file), with EMIF two LPARs can use the same > device channels to communicate to the OSA adapter. Is there any reason > NOT to do this?
It is a fine thing to do. With shared OSAs, everyone using the OSA must specify the same port name. Just make sure you specify the port name in UPPERCASE in the Linux config. The value to use is on the PORTNAME= parm in the z/OS VTAM TRLE definition for the OSA. Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM Development
