Ingo, We would consider it VERY important. All of our DASD is PAV enabled. It was enabled last December. All of the Linux instances that were already running have been OK, but I have to jump thru hoops to get a new instance created. I'm also concerned about lack of support should one of our production instances somehow decide not to boot because of PAV.
Since PAV is not going to be turned off (great z/OS performance improvements), Linux needs to be PAV tolerant, even if it does not take advantage of it. I'll be pointing our IBM SE to this discussion as well. Thanks, Jim Ingo Adlung wrote: >>Some time ago, there is a discussion about PAV and Linux/390 in the list. >>The last thing that i can remember it is Linux/390 can't be loaded from >>PAV volume. Try search to find details. > >We are considering doing a write up how to use PAV under z/VM using LVM >(requires SLES 8). Under LPAR we currently don't have the necessary Linux >support in place. > >Would be good to hear from you how important you consider it. > >Ingo
