Forwarded for a colleague while I rummage around on IBMLink....
________________________________ I'm really seriously beginning to think we're missing some maintenance or something on z/OS 1.5. Each time I write an IOCDS using HCD from the cold start TECH system to the IOCDS on the 2096, the job runs successfully and says that that IOCDS was updated, but when I look at it on the HMC, it says it is empty. I have to disassemble it on the HMC using an active partition and rebuild it. When I activate that IOCDS, it activates successfully. When I try to IPL the TECH image, it fails because of a problem with the channel subsystem. I'm doing this so I can get the zSeries hardware tokens in the IODF so we can make hardware/software changes dynamically, which we'll need to do to do the EDT updates. I've redone both IOCPs on the [old] system, downloaded them to a diskette, imported them and now I am doing a power on reset of both mainframes with the newly loaded stand-alone IOCP configurations. If someone can poke around a bit to see if we get any hits on the symptoms above, it would at least ease my mind that I am not going more crazy. -jc- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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