That may have been done so that when they IPL their system, it does not glom onto someone else's disks that, by chance, have the same volsers as theirs. Of course, the chances could be diminished had their disks been labeled something like SUNnnn or nnnSUN, instead of having the "default" or commonly used volume serials.
Regards, Richard Schuh > -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Quay, Jonathan (IHG) > Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 1:09 PM > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Re: CP Entered; Disabled Wait PSW 9025 > > Sungard also, perhaps unwisely, chose extremely low device > addresses for their floor system. You also have to remind > them to take their stuff offline before IPLing your stuff. > Usually more than once. > > -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas Kern > Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 3:24 PM > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Re: CP Entered; Disabled Wait PSW 9025 > > That is yet another reason to use the IBM volsers for a > MAINTENANCE syste= m and have your PRODUCTION system on some > other volumes. > > /Tom Kern > > > On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:36:45 -0500, Horlick, Michael > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Hi Ron, > > > >I think we were on a 2084 (is that a z900?). We also got > screwed up a > >bit because we had our sysres pack with the same volser > (520RES) as the > >floor system. > > > >The last time I had problems IPLing a system at Sungard was when we > were= > > >at VSE 2.6.1 and I didn't have the fixes in to run on a newer > processor.= > > >Luckily they had an older machine to use. > > > >Regards, > > > >Mike (Long live CGI, comrade!) >
