Although we have IPLed our VM/ESA 2.4 on our 9672 using the HMC, I also need to know how to run a DDR restore.
With a DDR tape that I had built with DDR at the front, followed by a full-pack dump after it, I could not get it to work under VM. With a tape at 181 and the disk pack attached at 521, both I 181 PARM AUTO0521 and I 181 LOADPARM AUTO0521 came back to my console asking for input. Perhaps it would work if run on the bare iron. Or, perhaps, I did not understand Hans Rempel when he wrote: You will need to IPL the standalone DDR tape and add the following 8 character value AUTODDDA to the PARM field. DDDA is the address of the disk drive to receive the output from the DDR restore. This IPL provides no messages and will load the DDR program and restore tape data to disk drive DDDA. Upon successful completion a disable PSW state will be loaded "PSW 000A0000 00000000".
