Thanks to everyone for the good wishes.
Not much to take a picture of. The HMC and a 3270 sit at the operator's
table. And the 9672 is just a big refrigerator-sized black box without any
lights on the outside. However, if I can figure out how to run my new
digital camera, and where to post the
After slightly missing the closing date of end of 2001, it looks like we
will be shutting down sometimes between October 1 and December 30.
One good thing about our VM/ESA 2.4 system -- no new bugs in a very long
time.
I have been baby-sitting the system on a part-time basis for the last four
Although we have IPLed our VM/ESA 2.4 on our 9672 using the HMC, I also
need to know how to run a DDR restore.
With a DDR tape that I had built with DDR at the front, followed by a
full-pack dump after it, I could not get it to work under VM. With a
tape at 181 and the disk pack attached at 521,
Thank you for all the responses. The consensus is to try to find used
controllers. The FLEXCUB solution is more elegant and versatile, but we
have no xSeries machines lying around, and are looking for a cheap
solution.
By the way, I understand that even if we can get our system to load via
the
This is a request to you archaeologist. We have a 9672-A14, running
VM/ESA 2.4, that was originally supposed to die in 2001. It is still
alive, but not feeling too well. The big problem is our 3274 (you read
right) controllers. The 3174s are gone, but we need something when/if we
have to IPL.
