Let me expand upon this some more.
When I go to a CMS userid on a 3270 screen, I can issue the command
CP SMSG VMTAPE VERSION
and get the response
VM:Tape 1.7C G0212 SP01
VMTBUF016I VERSION completion code=0.
but in Linux SLES8, I can issue (from root)
hcp smsg vmtape version
and get no response. Why not? This is a class G CP command and VMTAPE should respond
to anyone with this message. No escape characters needed or anything. I can do it
from CMS userids that don't have IUCV statements in the directory, so that isn't a
requirement.
There are a lot of things I could do if I could use the SMSG command from within Linux
via hcp. Use VMTAPE to mount a tape on a Linux server, for example.
Use the Best! Linux for Servers
Macintosh for Graphics
Palm for Mobility
Windows for Solitaire.
Gordon W. Wolfe, Ph.D. VM & Linux Systems Support
Enterprise Servers, The Boeing Company (425)865-5940
> ----------
> From: James Tison
> Reply To: Linux on 390 Port
> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 7:57 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Adding DASD to a guest, going from zipl.conf to dasdfmt w/o a
> reboot
>
> > When I want to add another device to a server, just log on to the server
> console and issue
> > #CP LINK * 297 297 MR (for some reason, I can't use the hcp command to
> do this...)
> > #CP DISC
>
> The reason you can't use the 'hcp' command to process your LINK statement
> as shown is the presence of the unescaped asterisk. Either escape it, or
> replace it with the uid of the guest machine ... it then works. Personally,
> I always opt for the latter.
>
> Regards,
> --Jim--
> James S. Tison
> Senior Software Engineer
> TPF Laboratory / Architecture
> IBM Corporation
> "A bird in hand is safer than one overhead."
>
>
