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For overall productivity the command line cannot be beat. This age old argument wages on. The secret to using it successfully though for me is a cheat sheet of commands along with an excel spreadsheet.

The cheat sheet is all the stuff I use a lot like adding an adapter or moving something or starting or stopping a partition or installing from network.

The spreadsheet though is the magic. Because we have MANY partitions they are listed in a nice table with the server, partition, profile, osver, cpu, cpu pool, memory, vlan1 vlan2 ..., VTL assignment, etc and whatnot. I fill that in for each new partition.

In the next tab I merely enter the partition number in the upper left and it fills in all the blanks with the exact command needed to create that partition as well as the virtual connections to the VIO servers. Copy Paste 5 or 6 times and done. Under 30 seconds.

Then there is a command to start it and one to stop it to generate the virtual WWNs and one to list them. Another 30 seconds. Then add those numbers (Just the last characters) to the table.

Next tab are the commands to feed into VIO1 and VIO2 to assign the proper fcs ports. Takes maybe 2 minutes.

Now on the next tab are the 5 commands each to add that partition to each of three fiber switches. (SAN 1, SAN 2, and Tape) About 3 minutes to do all of that.

Next tab is the SAN tab, it too reaches back and pulls in the numbers so we can create the host definition, the SAN LUNs, and link them to the Host, all in a minute.

And we're done. Now it's a simple matter of IPLing the partition from somewhere, be that network so it can installed or tape so it cab be restored.

Doing all that in 5 separate GUI's would take hours.

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 12/29/2017 7:29 AM, Rob Berendt wrote:
I am running 8.8.6 SP2
I try to use the Enhanced View as much as possible. The main reason is
that IBM considers that the wave of the future and pretty soon the Classic
view will no longer be available. Therefore the more I use it the more I
can report to IBM what doesn't work so they get it fixed before it's all I
can use. That, and it will develop familiarity.
Some of the function isn't there in the enhanced view. Even more than the
enhanced graphics of the enhanced view IBM is grasping something else as
even more "wave of the future": Command line. Apparently they are under
the belief that "real men don't use graphics" and when it comes to stuff
people prefer the command line. I tend to disagree with much of that.




Rob Berendt


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