On Thursday, 06/25/2009 at 03:32 EDT, "Romanowski, John (OFT)"
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Some more pedantism: For both dasd and SCSI disks, booting a rescue
system on
> the downed zLinux server makes repairing the file easier:
> the VM userid already has access to the disk in question, no need to
LINK to or
> get the other userid zoned/masked to the downed server's LUN.

It doesn't matter what user ID is used.  The NPIV WWPN is assigned to the
subchannel.  ATTACH the sc to whatever guest you want.  (The old
userid-based LUN Access Control authorization scheme is long gone.)

Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott

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