In my eyes, the best order is Operator_Consoles SYSTEM_3270 DE00 DF00 0820 0400 0009 SYSTEM_Console What means: if you are at the HMC to IPL: drag a 3270 icon onto the VM LPAR and IPL, you'll have the VM console in front of you. When VM is IPLed, kill the integrated 3270 console window from the HMC.
This is how my customer works since we're on a z9. They have a 2074(?) with console definitions for VM, but no longer use it. Now they migrate the 2074 to OSA ICC consoles, but for z/OS only, they will no longer define addresses for VM as the SYSTEM_3270 fullfills their needs entirely. Your other question: why don't you get a 1010 wait state. You have SYSTEM_Console in the system config, and that one is always available. But, if you did specify an address in the LOADPARM, I would also expect the 1010 when that address doesn't work. You should be able to test SAPL's behaviour on a secondlevel system too, be sure to link the VM resident in R/O mode, so that secondlevel IPL will not destory the running system. Which VM release is this? 2007/5/24, Berry van Sleeuwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Hello Kris, You and John did hit the problem, at least part of it. The OPERATOR is logged on to SYSC: 13:53:22 SYSC LOGON AS OPERATOR USERS = 1 The consoledefinitions in the SYSTEM CONFIG are: Operator_Consoles DE00 DF00 0820 0400 0009 SYSTEM_Console SYSTEM_3270 Emergency_Message_Consoles DE00 DF00 0820 0400 0009 The problem here is the fact that we can't connect to DF00 just now, so the VM was IPLled on the HMC with loadparm DF01. (DExx and DFxx are ICC consoles) But DF01 is not in the console statements. 820, 400 and 009 do not exist in that configuration. But then the next question. If I specify a loadparm DF01 I would expect t o see at least the SA-IPL on DF01. Then I can specify CONS=DF01 to IPL an d start OPERATOR on DF01. (Just like a guest VM can be IPLled with loadparm 0009 and then started with CONS=0009) But we've never seen a SA-IPL screen. Why then is VM started on SYSC? If a consoledefinition was incorrectly specified I would expect to receive an HCP1010W. Why would th e SA-IPL either bypassed or automatically started. AFAIK there is no operator that has pressed PF10 on a SA-IPL screen. Could is be that VM (CP?) detects the console and can decide to IPL with it's defaults? Anyway, we can test this behaviour. We still have one VM to IPL over ther e so we can try some different configurations. At least, also specify DF01 in the console statement. Thanks, Berry.
-- Kris Buelens, IBM Belgium, VM customer support
