Re: Simple OSA-Express question.....

2006-06-14 Thread Michael Schmutzok
Ok, I feel stupid now (ok, more so than I usually do). I momentarily got the channel ports confused with CHPID numbers. I'm not anywhere near the 256 CHPID limit so I've got plenty of those to choose from. Case closed and thank you gentlemen for jogging my memory. :o)

Re: Simple OSA-Express question.....

2006-06-14 Thread Doyle Banks
Hi, Arturo is correct that you can define one or both of the OSA ports that you will get with the new OSA "card". You will need to find out what PCHIDs will be assigned to those ports so that you can correctly define them with the CHPIDs. You should be able to get the PCHID numbers from your SSR o

Re: Simple OSA-Express question.....

2006-06-14 Thread Arturo Juarez
Hello Mike, Well you can define both OSA ports, there is no relation between the OSA ports and an ESCON channel, if your processor has enough capacity for the new card (i'm assuming yes) then you already have 2 new CHPIDs for each one of the OSA ports and you can proceed with the definitions, but

Re: Simple OSA-Express question.....

2006-06-14 Thread R.S.
Michael Schmutzok wrote: For redundancy's sake, we are purchasing another OSA-Express card soon. The issue is that we only have one free ESCON channel available and the OSA card requires two (one for each port). The manuals seem to assume that you're going to define the pair at the same time. My

Simple OSA-Express question.....

2006-06-14 Thread Michael Schmutzok
For redundancy's sake, we are purchasing another OSA-Express card soon. The issue is that we only have one free ESCON channel available and the OSA card requires two (one for each port). The manuals seem to assume that you're going to define the pair at the same time. My question is, can I just def