On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Alan Altmark <[email protected]>wrote:
> > I would like the HMC to allow upload of ISO images to a large-capacity USB > drive and for the Load from Removable Media function to allow selection of > said ISO image. This would be similar in thought to the Mount Virtual > Media function available for zBX blades. > > Folks need to help your organizations move past the quaint notion that the > HMC is only for Other People. It has a role for systems programmers, not > just machine jockeys. And I expect that role will grow over time. There's > a reason it has remote access capability. (Of course, I find lots of > shops fail to create individual user IDs on the HMC for the sysprogs with > appropriate assigned resource roles, causing the very thing they want to > avoid!) > > Alan Altmark > > Senior Managing z/VM and Linux Consultant > IBM System Lab Services and Training > ibm.com/systems/services/labservices > office: 607.429.3323 > mobile; 607.321.7556 > [email protected] > IBM Endicott > > I'm still "lusting" after that SSD in the zEC12. What a neat place to be able to put some IPLable image. Of course, that would only be machine-specific. Being able to use the HMC could allow all CECs connected to it to IPL from it. Instead of a USB, have a portion of the HMC's hard disk "reserved for user files" for IPL et al. -- As of next week, passwords will be entered in Morse code. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
