IMO - that's the best/safest way to do it. It forces you to specify the volumes you actually want online to z/VM..
Your post says that on your system all devices come online at IPL time though? That's the opposite approach and not as 'safe'... Scott Rohling On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) < terry.mar...@cms.hhs.gov> wrote: > Hi > > > > On my system all of the devices come online at IPL time. So if I only want > certain devices to come online on certain LPARS can I do something like this > where since all of the devices come online at IPL can I vary them all > offline and then come back and issue the online command for only the volumes > I want online for this LPAR. > > > > If there is a better way please by all means let me know! > > > > Thanks > > > > Devices , > > OFFLINE_AT_IPL 0000-FFFF > > > > Online_at_IPL 037B 5100-512E 5130-5179 5195 5198-519A 519C-519F, > > 51A0-51AE 51B0-51FF 5400-5403 5500-5507 > > > > > > *Thank You,* > > * * > > *Terry Martin* > > *Lockheed Martin - Citic* > > *z/OS and z/VM Performance Tuning and Operating Systems Support* > > *Office - 443 348-2102* > > *Cell - 443 632-4191* > > * * > > *[image: cid:image001.jpg@01C97FB5.5EAFD6C0]*** > > >
