On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 12:36:12 -0600, McKown, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In the deep, dark, past, I remember that we used the VARY command to >change the status of things such as storage, CPs, and channels. Now, >some things such as DEVICES are manipulated via the VARY command whereas >others, such as the CHPs, are manipulated via the CONFIG command. >Anybody have any idea why? Or how it was decided which things were >VARY'd and others CONFIG'd? > CONFIG seems to be more related to things you could do with the hardware interface (HMC) - or commands that "talk" to the hardware. VARY is more on a device / logical / OS level. I guess I haven't been around long enough to remember VARY for storage, channels, and CPs or didn't do them under MVS/SP 1.3 which is when I got my start with MVS. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.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
