My two cents opinion, since z/VM and zLinux can be IPLed from a DVD (by my experience) I see no reason why you could not IPL z/OS from DVD.
Of course as mentioned above, you must format the correct files on the DVD. Beside documentation you might want to look inside a zLinux (REDHAT or SUSE) DVD that is IPLable . Good luck. On 21 July 2010 17:19, Itschak Mugzach <[email protected]> wrote: > Alen. > > I don;t think z/Os has to do with this. This is a stand alone IPL. DSS S/A > image can be generated as a card-reader image (F/80/80) which is also > supported by tape (according to the manual). Anyway, the HMC does allow > to load S/A utilities from CD, but it requires an INS file that points to > the code to load. > > It look like you nbeed to be in a Single Operation Mode in order to use this > function. > > ITschak > > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Alan Altmark <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:21:49 +0300, Itschak Mugzach <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >During z/Linux installation it is possible to use the HMC's DVD drive as a >> >tape drive. I wonder is DSS S/A can be started (Loaded) from same device >> and >> >not from a IOCP defined device. >> >> Unless z/OS specifically provides support to do that, no. It takes coding >> changes to support boot from DVD (it's not an IPL operation). >> >> Creating a DVD that the HMC will understand and load isn't hard (look at >> the >> root directory of the Linux DVD), but getting it to work after it's been >> loaded is up to the code itself. >> >> Alan Altmark >> z/VM Development, IBM >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO >> Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
