On Thursday, 01/06/2011 at 05:42 EST, "Hughes, Jim" <jim.hug...@doit.nh.gov> wrote: > We have a new Z10 with 2 four port OSA Express 3 cards and 1 two port > OSA Express cards.
The two-port card is an OSA Express 2. > I am a little confused about the IOCP for these devices. > > I am reading the IOCP manual and I am a little confused about having two > ports on a card. > > Would I define one CNTLUNIT and one IODEVICE for each pair of ports? If > so, would the address.Pnn come into play with Pnn being 00 or 01 for the > port number? I am referring to the DEFINE VSWITCH command. Yes. > Continuing on, if the above is true, could I put 64 addresses on a > single IODEVICE statement and the use the Pnn format of the DEFINE > VSWITCH RDEV statement to control the addresses I use on each of the two > ports? > > Example: > > RDEV E000.P00 and RDEV E010.P01 > > I hope my question makes sense. Well, 64 addresses is overkill, since I don't think you want to share the OSA with anything else, but you could put 6 addresses, e.g. RDEV E000.P00 E003.P01 Alan Altmark z/VM and Linux on System z Consultant IBM System Lab Services and Training ibm.com/systems/services/labservices office: 607.429.3323 alan_altm...@us.ibm.com IBM Endicott
