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Mike, You went off course during the 'Set Major System Options'. Instead of 'Enable automatic configuration = 'Y', you should of had auto config to 'N' and QIPLTYPE, (Console in debug mode) set to 2. This way you would have received a working console and you could of continued. The Backup and Recovery Guide documents this. I'm not sure which chapter and verse, because the are various different scenarios documented, such as Was load source unit that failed. Are User ASPs present etc. I believe that it is Checklist 17 in the Recovery section, but check this as it may vary per Version/Release that you are running. At 04:20 PM 5/15/98 PDT, you wrote: >Hi All, > >Am getting ready to do a disaster recovery test up at our hot site in Seattle, WA in July. This will be the first test of a RISC AS/400 disaster recovery for us. > >To get ready and to see how our recovery instructions needed to change, I did a scratch install of V3R7 on a Model 40S. The good news is that you no longer have a backache from bending over trying to read the SRC codes to see where it is in the process. Almost all of the dialouge is now sent to the system console. That's nice! > >The real problems began at the point of setting the IPL Options during the O/S load. The Set Major Systems Options asks if you want to Enable automatic configuration which needs to be a 'Y' option. This creates a DEVD for the system console and tape devices. If you say no, the system hangs with an SRC of A9002000 and a blank console screen....Some choice. > >By saying yes to enable automatic configuration, I am moving on to the RESTORE menu to take option 21. For a tape device in the Specify Command Defaults screen I enter TAP01 and tell it to prompt for commands. This is where it goes to hell in a hand basket.....When restoring the user profiles I get an error "TAP01 Not Available" and the restore fails. > >I get back to a command line and do WRKCFGSTS *CTL TAP*. Auto config has created DEVD's for all 16 of the 3480 tape drives and the resource names and device names are not the same!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We on the AS/400 side only have 5 of these devices - what has happily been known as TAP01 through TAP05 for many years (or at least until auto config was turned on!). The mainframe has the remainder of the 3480 drives assigned to it. > >Through the process of elimination I was able to determine that the device TAP01 had a DEVD created by auto config called TAP06 assigned to the resource TAP01. I still have to sort through the remaining 4 drives and figure out which is which....That's not nice! > >Now for the $64,000,000.00: Is this by design??????????? If it is, you will never be able to have device naming integrity and have to manipulate them every time they are created - to include a disaster recovery scenerio. <BTW>A disaster recovery site with an auditor breathing down your neck ain't the place to find out you no longer know the device name of your alternate IPL tape drive !!! > >I hope someone at IBM will take a serious look at this and offer an explanation if not a solution to making sure the resource name TAP01 gets assigned to an auto config created DEVD name TAP01. > >My next question is: Have I missed something here???? Has anyone else seen this and found a way around this on a RISC box??? Any comments and ideas would be greatly appreciated. > >Mike Shaw >North American Mortgage Company >Santa Rosa, CA > > > > > > >+--- >| This is the Midrange System Mailing List! >| To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. >| To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. >| Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com >+--- > > Neil Clark Barsa Consulting Group, LLC. Tel. (914) 251 9400 Fax. (914) 251 9406 +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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