Re: SUSE12 Gold image on VM

2015-06-16 Thread Alan Altmark
On Tuesday, 06/16/2015 at 12:50 EDT, Mark Post wrote: > >>> On 6/15/2015 at 11:54 PM, Alan Altmark wrote: > > Neither z/VM nor Linux have to specify a portname (real or virtual). I > > recommend that you do NOT specify the portname. > > > > I don't understand why the distros still worry about the

Re: SUSE12 Gold image on VM

2015-06-16 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 6/16/2015 at 09:55 AM, Alan Altmark wrote: > On Tuesday, 06/16/2015 at 12:50 EDT, Mark Post wrote: >> >>> On 6/15/2015 at 11:54 PM, Alan Altmark > wrote: >> > Neither z/VM nor Linux have to specify a portname (real or virtual). I >> > recommend that you do NOT specify the portname. >> >

Re: SUSE12 Gold image on VM

2015-06-16 Thread Scott Rohling
Or make the driver ignore anything specified and set it to null/blank ... ? Scott Rohling On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 7:53 AM, Mark Post wrote: > >>> On 6/16/2015 at 09:55 AM, Alan Altmark > wrote: > > On Tuesday, 06/16/2015 at 12:50 EDT, Mark Post wrote: > >> >>> On 6/15/2015 at 11:54 PM, Alan

Re: SUSE12 Gold image on VM

2015-06-16 Thread Alan Altmark
On Tuesday, 06/16/2015 at 11:41 EDT, "Duerbusch, Tom" 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 del

Re: SUSE12 Gold image on VM

2015-06-16 Thread Duerbusch, Tom
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 wrot

WWPN changes

2015-06-16 Thread Mainframe Mainframe
Hello Group, We are using SUSE 11.2 z/Linux system with FCP channels. There are issues with one host that WWPN being dropped . So, now we want to use different WWPN number for this host and bring up again. For doing this, as per my knowledge we have to change entries in two places 1) z/VM text