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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware
Categories HMC/Support Element (SE)
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 3, 2024

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Stand-alone IOCP should honour the POCID-ID field of the dynamic token even if IOCDS source has been edited.

In IOCDS source generated by z/OS HCD the 'processor ID' is included as the first field in the 'TOK' parameter of the ID statement. If an IOCDS is generated by HCD calling IOCP directly or by stand-alone IOCP using un-modified IOCDS source imported to the SE from an FTP server or a USB stick the TOK parameter is accepted and the generated dynamic token can be referenced by the z/OS opertaing system to determine the 'HWNAME'. However apparentyl if the IOCDS source is edited in any way on the HMC the source is marked 'modified' and stand-alone IOCP replaces the TOK value with an internally-generated value. Message ICP130I is produced. This means that the 'HWNAME' seen by z/OS is unpredictable possibly leading to IPL problems if the z/OS configuration is dependant on a specific HWNAME - for instance to set some system symbols based on HWNAME value. For instance if the hardware has been upgraded and the IOCDS created for the new hardware is found to require correction there is apparently no way to specify the required processor ID in the token if z/OS cannot be started.

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
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    |     Oct 14, 2024
    The work-around is to edit the IOCP source file elsewhere and reimport it onto the SE.  As the user discovered, IOCP invalidates the supplied token whenever a user modifies the source file because we cannot assume that the I/O configuration from the operating system that provided the IOCP source file still matches the I/O configuration in the IOCP source file.  Anything could have been changed.  The token is designed to identify an I/O configuration.  So when the software and hardware tokens match, the hardware and software I/O configurations should match.  IOCP cannot enforce anything prior to what we are given (i.e., the work-around) but once the IOCP source file is on the SE it cannot be modified and maintain the original token.
  • Guest
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    |     Sep 3, 2024

    (1). There is a typo in the title - should read 'PROC-ID'.

    (2) The scenario which gave rise to this idea was a Disaster Recovery test on a new machine in which the SE was accessed remotely via the HMC web server. It was not possible to import the IOCDS source for the new machine from a USB stick and an FTP server was not available. Therefore the IOCDS source generated by z/OS HCD was 'pasted' into the IOCDS editor window for a new empty IOCDS source. The standalone IOCDS build replaced the 'TOK' parameter and add commented "*ICP ICP130I **WARNING** DYNAMIC TOKEN ALTERED " - the new token is not shown. z/OS did not IPL in the way expected because the 'HWNAME' tested by z/OS had been changed. This was difficult to diagnose. Inclding the new token value in the ICP130I would have given a clue to dignsoe the problem Even so there was then no way to correct the token or alter the z/OS configuration parameters without a running z/OS system.

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