<snips> On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:05:51 -0500, Hal Merritt <hmerr...@jackhenry.com> wrote:
>My memories are rusty, but I'll try. See below. Even if I'm wrong, I might jog >some (better) brain bones :-) >-----Original Message----- >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Mike Ross >Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 9:00 PM >To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu >Subject: Multiprise 3000 - fatal SE problems - help please! >2. I'm aware of activation profiles - reset profiles, load profiles >etc. What exactly IS 'activation' with respect to the MP3000 CPC? Is >it correct and normal for the SE to act as if the CPC is powered-off >until a reset profile has been run successfully? > >>>> Yes. The CPC is actually sort of a daughter board on the Intel board. The >>>> SE needs the profile to understand how to set up the CPC just like other CPU's. Memory allocation, LPARs, I/O subsystem, etc. I seem to remember loading the IOCDS as source via the floppy and running an assembler to create the initial IOCDS. That defined the LPARs, channels, etc. > >3. Restoring from two different tapes 2 years different in age >produces identical results - no trace of the default activation >profiles, and errors which make it impossible to edit activation >profiles. This can't be coincidence, there has to be a massive clue >there? > >>>> I agree. You seem to be missing a IOCDS as well as activation profiles. That turns out not to be the case; the IOCDS stuff is in a different part of the SE, and that is all present and correct. There are the usual IOCDS present... single image, multiple LPARs, DIAGNOSE etc. The problem is *activation profiles*, specifically reset profiles, not IOCDS; if I understand correctly the load profile invokes the IOCDS. >6. I can't find it documented anywhere, but is there a procedure to >restore the system to a blank default as-shipped factory configuration >*without* any customer data? Just the default IBM profiles etc.? There >must be such a procedure, but maybe it was only used internally within >IBM? > >>>> IIRC, the customer had to supply things like an IOCDS, activation >>>> profiles, configure the DASD, and somehow supply an operating system. I was not involved in that initial op sys step. Sure - but it absolutely should have the default IBM-supplied activation profiles, and/or several customer-defined activation profiles, and it doesn't - or they're 'hidden' somehow. I can't supply an activation profile as I get a LIC exception when I try to use the activation profile editor! Mike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
