We do it here all the time too. You will quickly find out which products are engine/model specific and which are serial number specific. As the others have said the IBM code "just works" -- the 3rd party stuff is as you suggest "it depends"
Jerry Whitteridge Mainframe Engineering Safeway Inc 925 951 4184 jerry.whitteri...@safeway.com If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Horne, Jim - James S > Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 10:09 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Adding CPU engines without IPL > > Hi all, > > We are planning to upgrade one of our 2094s dynamically from > a 712 to a 714. IBM assures us that their stuff will work. > Since we have the two engines in reserve our understanding is > that we can simply configure them online without an IPL or > Activate. My question is in two parts. Has anyone done this > and were there any issues with third party products? > > Thanks, > > Jim Horne > Systems Programmer > Large Systems Engineering & Messaging NC4IT > Lowe's Companies, Inc. > 1000 Lowe's Boulevard > Mooresville, NC > 704-758-5354 > jim.ho...@lowes.com<mailto:jim.ho...@lowes.com> > > > > > NOTICE: > All information in and attached to the e-mail(s) below may be > proprietary, confidential, privileged and otherwise protected > from improper or erroneous disclosure. If you are not the > sender's intended recipient, you are not authorized to > intercept, read, print, retain, copy, forward, or disseminate > this message. If you have erroneously received this > communication, please notify the sender immediately by phone > (704-758-1000) or by e-mail and destroy all copies of this > message (electronic, paper, or otherwise). Thank you. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > "Email Firewall" made the following annotations. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Warning: All e-mail sent to this address will be received by the corporate e-mail system, and is subject to archival and review by someone other than the recipient. This e-mail may contain proprietary information and is intended only for the use of the intended recipient(s). If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient(s), you are notified that you have received this message in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately. ============================================================================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
