Re: Activate lpar automatically?

2008-12-15 Thread David Andrews
On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 04:19 -0600, Rafa Pereira wrote: Is there any issue about quiescing a test lpar if it is in a GRS RING together with a production lpar? Oh yes. Shutdown system TEST normally (don't QUIESCE or otherwise kill the LPAR), then at the production LPAR enter: V

Re: Activate lpar automatically?

2008-12-15 Thread Rafa Pereira
On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 13:54:52 -0800, Gibney, Dave gib...@wsu.edu wrote: I've had success with a sandbox that's just z/OS. Not so much if a database is up. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Gibney, Dave Sent: Sunday,

Re: Activate lpar automatically?

2008-12-15 Thread John Kelly
snip ipl (activate) a lpar on the hmc automatically without any operator intervention. unsnip Another option would be to have remote HMC support which is fairly easy, other than the security and/or institutional concern(s). One brave soul could then deactivate it at night and then activate it

Re: Activate lpar automatically?

2008-12-15 Thread Gibney, Dave
I sure David is right. I'm talking about an independent monoplex. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of David Andrews Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 4:57 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Activate lpar automatically

Re: Activate lpar automatically?

2008-12-14 Thread David Logan
-3056 C: (303) 818-8222 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 13:20 To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Activate lpar automatically? snip

Re: Activate lpar automatically?

2008-12-14 Thread Meral Temel (Garanti Teknoloji)
@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] Activate lpar automatically? I would agree. I see no reason to bring down an LPAR for production. If you are worried about test machine use overnight, you can schedule turning off initiators or putting all batch jobs to sleep, or, you can even simply give a huge

Re: Activate lpar automatically?

2008-12-14 Thread Gibney, Dave
AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Activate lpar automatically? I would agree. I see no reason to bring down an LPAR for production. If you are worried about test machine use overnight, you can schedule turning off initiators or putting all batch jobs to sleep, or, you can even simply

Re: Activate lpar automatically?

2008-12-14 Thread David Logan
Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Gibney, Dave Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2008 12:49 To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Activate lpar automatically? If it's really a problem using production resources at night, try QUIECSEing the sandbox when you leave and PSW restart

Re: Activate lpar automatically?

2008-12-14 Thread Gibney, Dave
- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Gibney, Dave Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2008 12:49 To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Activate lpar automatically? If it's really a problem using production resources at night, try QUIECSEing

Activate lpar automatically?

2008-12-12 Thread Todd Last
We are wondering if we can ipl (activate) a lpar on the hmc automatically without any operator intervention. Anyone have a product or written an API? We would like to activate our test lpar (monoplex) at 7am so when we get in at 8am, the system is up. We can't leave it up overnight because we

Re: Activate lpar automatically?

2008-12-12 Thread Rick Fochtman
snip--- We are wondering if we can ipl (activate) a lpar on the hmc automatically without any operator intervention. Anyone have a product or written an API? We would like to activate our test lpar (monoplex) at 7am so when we get

Re: Activate lpar automatically?

2008-12-12 Thread Raymond Noal
12, 2008 12:20 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Activate lpar automatically? snip--- We are wondering if we can ipl (activate) a lpar on the hmc automatically without any operator intervention. Anyone have a product or written