Mike,
Take a
look at the Dialog facility in VM:Operator.
Dennis
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile -- hoping it will eat
him last.". -- Winston Churchill
From: VM/ESA and z/VM Discussions [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Walter
Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 13:29
To: [email protected]
Subject: Automated OS/340 guest IPL using PROP (or VM:Operator)
We have a new itsy-bitsy OS/390 guest (as itsy-bitsy as OS/390 ever gets). I'd like to automate all prompt responses at its console via PROP or VM:Operator so that we are free to bring VM up and down with the barest (if any) operator interaction for this guest.
But it does not appear that OS/390 wants to come completely up without a 3270 console (which can't be easily captured and responded to anyway). I have recollections of Melinda having managed to do this with her MVS guests at Princeton. After many google, VMESA-L, and VMSHARE searches I was unable to find anything specific (other than "she did it"). Maybe it relied on LDEVs? Does anyone remember the technique?
BTW, even though 01F is not listed as a console in it's gen, or it's SYS1.PARMLIB(CONSOL00) member, or in the IODEF, OS/390 and even z/OS will begin to IPL using 01F as a 3215. At some point fairly early it just stops responding. Still it's terrific when there are IPL errors that display for a nanosecond on a 3270 before the 3270 screen clears and is replaced with a HCP Wait State message telling you to read the message that just cleared. The only other way of capturing the message is probably with a high-speed videocam. <grin>
Mike Walter
Hewitt Associates
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