Re: LPAR and Serial number question

Hello, Michael:

Although the RTVSYSVAL QSRLNBR does not tell you
the "unique" partition, you can use the following technique:

The MI instruction MATMATR has an option (X'01E0') to
retrieve partition information, which includes the following:

"Current partition identifier" is the unique identifier of the
current partition on the physical machine. This field is
materialized as a binary value. Note: If a partition is deleted,
the partition identifier of any existing partition that is active
or defined does not change.

"Primary partition identifier" is the identifier of the primary
partition. This field is materialized as a binary value.

"Logical serial number" provides a unique machine identifier
for the current partition.

etc.

You can either access MATMATR as a "built-in" function from
any ILE language (RPG-IV, COBOL or C), or you can write a
small MI routine and call this OPM *PGM from your existing
RPG/400 or other OPM applications, to retrieve this info.

See the MI Functions Reference manual for V5R1 on-line at:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r1/ic2924/tstudio/tech_ref/mi/

I hope that helps...

Regards,

Mark S. Waterbury

----- Original Message -----
From: <Mlpolutta@aol.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 11:43 AM
Subject: LPAR and Serial number question


> Folks,
>
> Is there any way to distinguish between partitions via the serial number
of the machine?  RTVSYSVAL gives the same value no matter what the
partition.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Michael Polutta
> Atlanta, GA
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