I did exactly that last October. Our Contract with SunGard expired, and we
have since changed vendors, but I can honestly say I was the FIRST sungard
customer to recover Linux.
Ours was native in an LPAR, and I had them create a VM directory that had
all the devices I needed mapped to the address that z/IPL expected, as well
as the OSA. So on that note, you are 100% on track. I used DFDSS CDL
copies, as we don't have FDR, but I see no reason as to why this shouldn't
work.
I was able to IPL the system in that guest, and then using a PC at the
Sungard facility, I was able to aim a web browser at the Linux hosted web
server.
"Peter E. Abresch
Jr. - at Pepco"
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We have SuSE Linux SLES8 SP03 running in a native LPAR. In a couple of
weeks we will be going to Sungard for Contingency Testing. Normally we
recover our z/OS system under VM as a guest. We wish to recover our Linux
system as a VM guest as well. Under the VM mapping, I made sure that the
UCB address for the DASD and OSA match. My plan is simply to use FDR full
volume restores to recover the volumes and to boot Linux. I then developed
some scripts to redefine the network configs and such.
When I run z/OS under VM, the VM userid is the processor id as defined in
HCD. What will the VM userid be for the Linux guest or does it matter?
Are there any gotchas when going from native LPAR to VM for Contingency
Testing?
Any and all suggestions are welcomed. Thanks as always.
Peter
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