The drag&drop is simply the way to give an LPAR an "integrated 3270 console". It does not instruct SAPL to display/bypass its panel.
The display of the SAPL panel is requested by entering the address of a 3270 in the LOADPARM field (enter SYSG to indicate the "integrated 3207 console") When the LOADPARM field is empty, you tell SAPL that it should use the defaults to IPL CP. These defaults are defined by the SALIPL command (i.e. SALIPL writes the SAPL program and the IPL defaults on the disk).
From your forum appends, I seem to conclude that you have operator
intervention during all IPLs. The normal way to IPL a VM is with an empty LOADPARM field, which means no operator intervention is required. Entering a 3270 address in the LOADPRAM field is only required when you want to IPL VM in a special way: such as: another console, an other CP nucleus than CPLOAD, another SYSTEM CONFIG file. At my customer's installation, we can use a browser to connect to the HMC and so I can IPL VM from my desk, or even here at home if the operators would get stuck. But, I must admit, before or VMs were moved from a 9672 to a z9, I never saw an HMC. The last machine I IPLed myself before the z9 was a 9370, and the HMC was called "hardware console" at that time. -- Kris Buelens, IBM Belgium, VM customer support 2007/5/24, Berry van Sleeuwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Kris, The VM is z/VM 5.2 RSU 601. I can test it with one LPAR that still needs to be IPLled. We have cloned some VM's so apart from some small local tailoring (like nodeID and TCPIP configs) the VM's are identical. Let's play around a little bit. Either a s guest or native. You mention drag 'n' drop in the HMC. Does that indeed mean that the SA-I PL in that case is bypassed and VM is IPLled using defaults (CPLOAD MODULE, MAINT CF1 etc)? I must say, I haven't seen an HMC up close in 4 years now because that is completely separate from our department and even located in a different building. My last HMC was the one on a 9672. It is a real pleasure I must be able to help our operators during IPL but to have no recent knowledge of the newer HMC and it's procedures and capabilities :- (. Regards, Berry.
