Unless you want all your Linux machines to have four CPUs, you'd have to change your profile. There is this line in the doc of the CPU directory statement:
"If specified, the CPU statement must appear before any device statements." Since you have NICDEF in your profile, you can't put CPU statements after the INCLUDE of your profile. The MACHINE statement you mentioned may be the way out of that: http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/zvm/v6r3/topic/com.ibm.zvm.v630.hcpa5/dmachin.htm It allows you to specify how many virtual CPUs is the user allowed to define, e.g. MACHINE ESA 4 Would make the user start with one CPU (assuming there are no CPU statements in the directory) and let the user define extra CPUs via DEFINE CPU http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/zvm/v6r3/topic/com.ibm.zvm.v630.hcpb7/defincpu.htm You could run DEFINE CPUs from PROFILE EXEC if you IPL to CMS first and IPL Linux from PRIFILE EXEC. Just like CPU, the MACHINE statement must precede any device statements so you'd have to put MACHINE ESA 4 in your profile which would allow all your Linux users to define 4 CPUs at runtime. So it may be better to restructure your profile and leave the device statements out of it. To tell which directory statements are device statements, see this table: http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/zvm/v6r3/topic/com.ibm.zvm.v630.hcpa5/hcpa5226.htm#hcpa5-gen225__dircat Tomas
