Re: Offline_at_ipl

[Romanowski, John (OFT)]

We use Offline_at_IPL for exactly that purpose: to tell CP to leave some  dasd devices offline during IPL so CP won’t look at their volids and possibly find they’re duplicates of other online volids. Your AUTOLOG1 PROFILE EXEC can do a CP VARY ON xxxx-yyyy to put the offline devices online shortly after IPL.   This e-mail, including any attachments, may be confidential, privileged or otherwise legally protected. It is intended only for the addressee. If you received this e-mail in error or from someone who was not authorized to send it to you, do not disseminate, copy or otherwise use this e-mail or its attachments.  Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete the e-mail from your system. From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Feldman (WFF) Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 10:48 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Offline_at_ipl   Looks safe, but…   In our plan to test a new release of VSE (3.1) we plan to isolate a copy of our production VM system as a 2nd level system, then install the new VSE on this system. This scenario would give us duplicate volsers for all the volumes in the System Config. If we specify the address range of the ‘restored’ dasd as ‘Offline_at_IPL’ are we assured that this statement will be processed/respected before the Ipl proceeds so we will not encounter CP picking up our ‘restored’ volume instead of the real production volume?   Thanks in advance,     Richard Feldman                                                Senior IT Architect                                         Kelly, Douglas / Westfair Foods  Ltd.                          Ph:(403)291-6339 Fax:(403)291-6585