Re: ADDNWSSTGL vs 17 drives

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Pete,

My argument would be they already know if there are the virtual 
opticals/DVD attached at the IBM i level.  Granted they don't 
necessarily see that on the HMC but they do have a decent shot at it in 
IBM i.  If you don't put the prohibition in there, then why not a pop up 
screen that tells you the number of devices on that NWS to start with?  
Then you could back out at that point.

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 9/30/2013 7:23 AM, Pete Massiello - ML wrote:
> You can certainly add a 17th drive without a problem, but it goes beyond that.  IBM I doesn't know if there are also DVD or Virtual Opticals on the same vSCSI, so even if you add 16 drives, you might have screwed yourself if you only have one vSCSI per partition, as you won't get an optical.
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> Subject: ADDNWSSTGL vs 17 drives
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> I opened up a DCR to IBM to ask them to add some error checking to stop you from adding a 17th drive with ADDNWSSTGL.  Here was their reply:
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> User Group Number - MR0225137148
> Document Status - Rejected
> Title - Add error checking on ADDNWSSTGL to stop adding a 17th drive on a nwsd which only supports 16.
> IBM does not intend to provide a solution to this request...
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> IBM goes on to show that it's documented in a few places, and posted the links, but thinks it's silly to add error checking to commands.
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> Rob Berendt
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