On Wednesday, 09/01/2010 at 10:49 EDT, gclo...@br.ibm.com wrote: > About a year ago I have one problem installing zVM 5.4 (native LPAR), into a > Customer site. > The problem was with the HMC keyboard: impossible to use the "Slash key". Yes, > no "/" available. No spare keyboard, no corrections found, no keyboard setup > available, etc. > The installation process needs to specify "/cpdvd" to start the installation. > The circumvention was copy the DVD to another, directly into the root, without > the folder "cpdvd". After it, the installation was done normally, without > specify any directory. > My question: why to put the data on a "unnecessary" folder, inserting one > "point-of-fault"? Can you ask the development guys? Did you open a hardware PMR? (You know the old saying: "If a client has a problem and the Support Center doesn't know about it, does the problem really exist?") We want to keep stuff in a particular directory; there's nothing evil about that, even if it seems (today) unnecessary.
According to information I can find, Portuguese keyboards in Brazil have the forward slash in the same location as the US, right next to the right shift key. If you had a Portuguese (Portugal) PC keyboard, it would be shift-7 (the same place it's located on 3270 keyboards). Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
