Re: INPUT/OUTPUT CONFIGURATION

[Carlos Bodra - Pessoal]

You can just go to HMC and do a PCHID reassign from bad one to a good 
one in same or in another Escon Card.

Carlos Bodra    
IBM Certified Specialist System z       
Sao Paulo - Brazil

Em 21/07/2011 16:32, Sherry Everhart escreveu:
Hello Everyone,
I am interested in knowing how to configure a "spare" ESCON channel to our
DASD so that if one of the existing eight shared channels goes belly-up
(like it did last week) we can just move the cable over and not have to
POR.

I'm currently looking in the "System z Input/Output Configuration Program
User's Guide for ICP IOCP" but I'm not sure what to look for.  I keep
getting this error when trying to add another channel:

  CHPID PCHID=160,PATH=(60),TYPE=CNC,SHARED
  CHPID PCHID=161,PATH=(61),TYPE=CNC,SHARED
  CHPID PCHID=162,PATH=(62),TYPE=CNC,SHARED
  CHPID PCHID=163,PATH=(63),TYPE=CNC,SHARED
  CHPID PCHID=166,PATH=(66),TYPE=CNC,SHARED
  CHPID PCHID=170,PATH=(70),TYPE=CNC,SHARED
  CHPID PCHID=171,PATH=(71),TYPE=CNC,SHARED
  CHPID PCHID=175,PATH=(75),TYPE=CNC,SHARED
  CHPID PCHID=176,PATH=(76),TYPE=CNC,SHARED
   CNTLUNIT CUNUMBR=0C00,PATH=(60,61,62,63,66,70,71,75,76),UNIT=3990,    X
                UNITADD=((00,256)),CUADD=0
*ICP  ICP115I DELIMITER ERROR, EXPECT RIGHT PARENTHESIS - ,76),UNI
  CNTLUNIT CUNUMBR=0D00,PATH=(60,61,62,63,66,70,71,75,76),UNIT=3990,    X
                UNITADD=((00,256)),CUADD=1
*ICP  ICP115I DELIMITER ERROR, EXPECT RIGHT PARENTHESIS - ,76),UNI
  CNTLUNIT CUNUMBR=0E00,PATH=(60,61,62,63,66,70,71,75,76),UNIT=3990,    X
                UNITADD=((00,256)),CUADD=2
*ICP  ICP115I DELIMITER ERROR, EXPECT RIGHT PARENTHESIS - ,76),UNI
  CNTLUNIT CUNUMBR=0F00,PATH=(60,61,62,63,66,70,71,75,76),UNIT=3990,    X
                UNITADD=((00,256)),CUADD=3
*ICP  ICP115I DELIMITER ERROR, EXPECT RIGHT PARENTHESIS - ,76),UNI
  IODEVICE ADDRESS=(0D00,256),CUNUMBR=(0C00),                           X
                UNIT=3380,UNITADD=00
  IODEVICE ADDRESS=(0E00,256),CUNUMBR=(0D00),                           X
                UNIT=3380,UNITADD=00
  IODEVICE ADDRESS=(0F00,256),CUNUMBR=(0E00),                           X
                UNIT=3390,UNITADD=00
  IODEVICE ADDRESS=(1000,256),CUNUMBR=(0F00),                           X
                UNIT=3390,UNITADD=00
The error message states:  "IOCP expected a right parentheses as the first
character of string xxxxxxxx.  This error can occur if a keyword value
contains too many characters or if more parameters than your CPC supports
were specified."

Is it possible to configure a spare channel for redundancy?

Thanks for the help.

Sherry E.