Re: Volume is offline after IPL (ADCD beginner question)

[Pfister, Nathan]

Within the IODF for the system, you can specify whether a device comes up 
online or offline to a system.  This is where those ADCD volumes would be 
specified as online.

This website is a pretty good outline of how to change an IODF (albeit a little 
hard to follow):

http://www.mainframetips.com/zos-production-iodf-configuration-display-create-change-using-ispf/

HTH

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Subject: Volume is offline after IPL (ADCD beginner question)

All,

I’m currently installing and customizing an z/OS 2.1 ADCD. Until now, nearly 
everything I’ve needed to customize is working pretty well, but there is just 
one thing I really don’t get.

I don’t understand the way how z/OS brings volumes online on IPL. The ADCD 
comes with several volumes and all are online after IPL. Now I’ve added an own 
volume, assigned an address in the devmap file and did an IPL. Now… the volume 
is always offline after IPL. I can bring it online with “V 0af1,online” but I 
don’t know what I have to do that z/OS will bring it online automatically… 
(BTW, the address I’ve choosen is present in HCD and I’ve formatted the volume 
with ICKDSF).

I’ve read about a VATLST00 Member in SYS1.PARMLIB – but….. If I have to add my 
volume to this member, why are all the ADCD-Volumes online automatically after 
IPL (as these volumes are not listed there). Where is the magic?!?

I guess this is a pure z/OS Admin Beginner Question….

Thank you for any hint,
Michael


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Re: Volume is offline after IPL (ADCD beginner question)

[Elardus Engelbrecht]

Michael Knigge wrote:

>Now I’ve added an own volume, assigned an address in the devmap file and did 
>an IPL. Now… the volume is always offline after IPL. I can bring it online 
>with “V 0af1,online” but I don’t know what I have to do that z/OS will bring 
>it online automatically… (BTW, the address I’ve choosen is present in HCD and 
>I’ve formatted the volume with ICKDSF). 
 
I’ve read about a VATLST00 Member in SYS1.PARMLIB – but….. If I have to add my 
volume to this member, why are all the ADCD-Volumes online automatically after 
IPL (as these volumes are not listed there). Where is the magic?!? 

Magic is in SYS1.PARMLIB(COMMNDxx) or SYS1.PARMLIB(IEACMDxx)

Or you have it as command in some STC or in your JES2 init statement.

Failing that, search your SYSLOG (before and after IPL) or your HCD setup again.

Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht

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Re: Volume is offline after IPL (ADCD beginner question)

[Elardus Engelbrecht]

Pfister, Nathan wrote:

>Within the IODF for the system, ... 

Yes, thanks for mentioning the IODF. It surely is one of the places to check 
your volsers.

Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht

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Re: Volume is offline after IPL (ADCD beginner question)

[John Eells]

michael.kni...@set.de (Michael Knigge) wrote:

All,

I’m currently installing and customizing an z/OS 2.1 ADCD. Until now, nearly 
everything I’ve needed to customize is working pretty well, but there is just 
one thing I really don’t get.

I don’t understand the way how z/OS brings volumes online on IPL. The ADCD 
comes with several volumes and all are online after IPL. Now I’ve added an own 
volume, assigned an address in the devmap file and did an IPL. Now… the volume 
is always offline after IPL. I can bring it online with “V 0af1,online” but I 
don’t know what I have to do that z/OS will bring it online automatically… 
(BTW, the address I’ve choosen is present in HCD and I’ve formatted the volume 
with ICKDSF).

I’ve read about a VATLST00 Member in SYS1.PARMLIB – but….. If I have to add my 
volume to this member, why are all the ADCD-Volumes online automatically after 
IPL (as these volumes are not listed there). Where is the magic?!?

I guess this is a pure z/OS Admin Beginner Question….


As Nathan suggested, HCD lets you specify whether volumes should be 
online or offline after IPL.  The logic is backward for reasons lost in 
the mists of time (and which predate HCD); so, to have the volumes be 
online after IPL, you must set OFFLINE to NO.


The VATLST (Volume ATtribute LiST) is used to specify how online volumes 
are used.  It does not let you change whether they are online or offline 
at IPL time.  Attributes are defined in z/OS MVS Initialization & Tuning.


COMMNDxx and IEACMDxx (read about which to use when in z/OS MVS Init & 
Tuning Guide and/or Reference) are used to issue commands automatically. 
 The commands, though issued early, are scheduled asynchronously.  So 
if the volumes must be online very early, command completion might not 
be timely and HCD could be your only real alternative.


HTH,

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Re: Volume is offline after IPL (ADCD beginner question)

[Terry Sambrooks]

Hi Michael,

Having added several volumes to various pre-z/OS 2.1 release of the ADCD
without hitting the problem you have mentioned it might be worth posting you
devmap entry from what would logically be zos21.prof (z/OS 1.13 has
zos113s.prof which is how I derived the name.)

It may be something in here which is inhibiting initial online status,
although I defer to the IODF comments made by more knowledge folk than I in
that area.

As others have said if you wish to automate the change to online then
including a VARY command in COMMNDnn would be prefereable to IEACMDnn which
conventionally is reserved for IBM issued commands.

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