Thanks Alan I'll drop portname from my install documentation and, eventually, when we get a new processor, we can go to SLES 12 and beyond, and portnames will eventually die out (no zOS here...for bettor or worse).
Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Alan Altmark <alan_altm...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > On Tuesday, 06/16/2015 at 11:41 EDT, "Duerbusch, Tom" > <duerbus...@stlouis-mo.gov> wrote: > > Back in the old days, SLES 7, the statement about portname was, "it is > not > > required, but if you do use it, you must use it every where" (or > something > > to that effect). > > > > So, as I never when back to the older running images to delete the > > portname, I still continue to specify the portname on all new images. > > > > So, the question is, can I have a mixture of images that specify a > portname > > with images that do not specify a portname? > > > > Also, I have running images that goes back to SLES9 running. Does your > > answer go all the way back to SLES9? > > > > (I'm on a z/890....almost everything I run is currently unsupported <G>) > > I can't speak to SLES requirements, but as far as the OSAs go, the > portname is optional. IF it is specified, then it must match anyone else > who also specified the portname, be they z/OS, Linux, VM, or VSE. So, > yes, you can mix specify/unspecified on the port. All the 'specified' > hosts must use the same value. > > Alan Altmark > > Senior Managing z/VM and Linux Consultant > Lab Services System z Delivery Practice > IBM Systems & Technology Group > ibm.com/systems/services/labservices > office: 607.429.3323 > mobile; 607.321.7556 > alan_altm...@us.ibm.com > IBM Endicott > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
