What?!? Are we in the stone age? 8^) I actually created an IPLable USB stick for an old DR environment. We do things on the "cheap", restoring stand-alone from replicated virtual tape to DS8800. ICKDSF SA CDROM was a starting point, then added FDR SAR, and ZZSA (just in case things go south).
Be glad to share whatever I have and learned. James Lund | Chief Systems Engineer Mainframe and Enterprise Backup Service | Division of Information Technology Texas A&M University 3363 TAMU | College Station, TX 77843-3363 ph: 979.845.8410 | fax: 979.845.2074 | james-l...@tamu.edu - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - IT.tamu.edu -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Ed Jaffe Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2021 9:52 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] IPL from SCSI DVD or via NVMe On 3/18/2021 12:03 AM, Timothy Sipples wrote: > > Just to keep you amused (or something?) the z/OS Customized Offerings > Driver has different version and release numbers than the skinny/mini > z/OS it contains, so just be aware of that. Now you are. :-) Thanks, Tim. I'll try to order one. Hopefully inspection of the COD deliverable will help me figure out how to make my own. Then I can share the details in a SHARE Bit Bucket... It seems ridiculous to me that IBM still documents how to IPL DSS from a card deck (A CARD DECK!), yet puts zero effort into helping customers IPL their utilities from FTP and other modern 21st-Century locations. Yet, they do it themselves internally (e.g., as part of COD) because doing so is necessary! This is a prime example of the kind of nonsensical "baggage" that holds our great platform down... -- Phoenix Software International Edward E. Jaffe 831 Parkview Drive North El Segundo, CA 90245 https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.phoenixsoftware.com/__;!!KwNVnqRv!SPJ6L3Y9KE8eb-_Lbw7rrwSdH6isq8iRQ9HVYm6JRuGTRbBFJ2hUoEDQqiYIYZaf4g$ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail message, including any attachments, appended messages and the information contained therein, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not an intended recipient or have otherwise received this email message in error, any use, dissemination, distribution, review, storage or copying of this e-mail message and the information contained therein is strictly prohibited. If you are not an intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of this email message and do not otherwise utilize or retain this email message or any or all of the information contained therein. Although this email message and any attachments or appended messages are believed to be free of any virus or other defect that might affect any computer system into which it is received and opened, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that it is virus free and no responsibility is accepted by the sender for any loss or damage arising in any way from its opening or use. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
