Hi All, thanks for all your responses. How could I forget the SAPL. Must be getting old....
The customer is still using VM/ESA 2.30... I don't know if the SAPL would take the LOADPARM. Anyway, the application runing on the MP2003-204 allows a place to put in a load address and a load parameter. However, it only allows 8 characters in this load parameter field, but NO special characters allows, like the = sign... RRRRRRRrrrrrr......
There are no "intergrated console support" in this beast either....
Do you have other suggestions? TIA
Regards,
...Roland
Kris Buelens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Kris Buelens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In some z/VM release, new possibilities have been added in the area of console address override. I don't know which release, but it surely already work in z/VM 4.4
Here's a summary of what you now can do
- LOADPARM rdev --> starts SAPL on "rdev", there you can enter CONS=rdev to tell CP where to go
and load CP
- LOADPARM CONSrdev -> SAPL directly loads CP and passes CONS=rdev
As rdev one can also specify SYSG to indicate the "integrated 3270 CONSOLE", very easy but first you must drag a "3270 console" icon on the icon of the LPAR in which you want to load VM. Both SAPLand CP support this console (z/OS does not), so the LOADPARM can be SYSG or CONSSYSG
Similar, there is SYSC, the integrated linemode console, not supported by SAPL, so you can also enter LOADPARM CONSSYSC to directly load CP and instruct it to got to that linemode terminal.
Kris,
IBM Belgium, VM customer support
