RE: CA UniCenter

Hank, OS/2 should have no trouble recognizing the full size of the disk,
but (and note I dont know much about IDE drives) it sounds like it is
IDE related.

What I would suggest is to go to an OS/2 window or any command line and
run FDISK, if FDISK can see the the entire size of the drive then (dont
know how much other stuff you have on the drive) you can delete the
partition(s) and redefine them.

If you are using a empty machine, you could reinstall OS/2 using the
Advanced Installation option which will give you the oportunity to
select drives etc.. and will run FDISK for you.

Another option to consider if you have much else on the machine, is to
get PQMagic from Power Quest corporation, it will allow you to resize
partitions on the fly. Some caution required with though, as always,
make sure the data is backed up.

About unicenter, we were trying to use it and had a great deal of
problems getting it to do what it was supposed to do. The product was
recommended by someone who saw an oportunity to use the advanced
features that CA would provide, however the client only wanted tape
labels, the product does not do tape labels well! We did manage to get
triggers working sort of, and we did get CA to respond to some system
messages but all things considered, it was a large waste of time.

I can recommend one thing with respect to CA and Unicenter, get on the
good side of the support folks, I highly recommend an individual called
Candy Hayes she helped a great deal getting what we did get working to
work. Also if you have a need to get additional help CA has what they
call a Swat Team for Unicenter, these folks know thier stuff.
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From: HankHeath
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: CA UniCenter
Date: Wednesday, January 07, 1998 4:21PM

CA UniCenter is being loaded onto a PC on my desktop to provide a "one-
console" system management solution for a number of AS/400s on the token
ring
network of one of our clients. This version is supposed to run on a PC
under
OS/2 (later, CA has announced that they'll run under NT with UniCenter
TNG).

The guy who is installing OS/2 Warp on the desktop unit has been having
all
sorts of trouble, and I haven't touched OS/2 since about 1991, so I
can't help
him. One of the problems he is having is that not all the disk is being
recognized. The PC is a Deskpro 590 with 32 Mb of RAM, a 396 Mb disk
unit
which OS/2 recognizes, and a 1 Gb disk slave unit, which is not
recognized. As
a result, the operating system, Client Access, and UniCenter are all
squashed
together onto the 396 Mb disk.

So, my question is: how can I get OS/2 Warp to recognize the other 1 Gb?

The second problem has to do with Client Access. We have a tested the
token
ring adapter and cable and network, and can make an emulation connection
with
the AS/400 using Comm Mgr. However, UniCenter insists upon using Client
Access. Client Access argues a bit with Comm Mgr as to who is going to
command
the communications, seems to win the battle, but never connects to the
AS/400.
Any ideas on where to look?

Hank Heath
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