Right now those Channels are not assigned in IODF for those DASD. After aligning the control Unit with new channels to the existing DASD. a soft activation of IODF will help the channels to use these new Disk ? Or i need a POR ?
On Mon, 8 Sept 2025, 15:07 Mike Schwab, < [email protected]> wrote: > You only need one channel to access dasd, the others are for failover in > case of hardware fault. You enter the volume to Ipl from, it should have > the IO definition of all devices until migration is complete. Vary > unneeded volume offline, not channels > > On Mon, Sep 8, 2025 at 4:28 AM Peter < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello > > > > We are migrating our current storage from DS8886 to DS8910F. > > > > While both the storage are connected to mainframe can I point one of the > > lpar to the new box DS8910F and ipl it ? > > > > We have two zOS LPARS in mainframe and I want to try IPL one of the LPARs > > pointing to DS8910F. > > > > Out of the 6 channels . The 4 channels are connected to DS8886 and 2 > > channels are connected to DS8910F. > > > > Is it possible to make the 4 channels offline prior loading the loading > the > > LPAR and have them point to 2 channels which are connected to DS8910F ? > > > > Peter > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > > -- > Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA > Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
