I have to agree that BCPii is an inappropriate answer to OP's question. We had to set it up years ago when we went to GDPS to manage our DR environment. We soon expanded its role to include all LPARs (except z/VM) on all CECs. I highly recommend BCPii , which is more powerful today than when we implemented it. But do consider fit for purpose. And yes, it requires some setup.
. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-302-7535 Office [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Jaffe Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2016 7:58 AM To: [email protected] Subject: (External):BCPii (Was: can a program determine the capacity setting of a z-box?) On 4/25/2016 5:20 PM, Pinnacle wrote: > :-P <raspberry sound effect> BCPii is fairly prevalent these days. > It's enabled everywhere I've been. Now that we're talking about BCPii, despite it being a _totally, completely and thoroughly_ inappropriate solution to the OP's original question, I gotta wonder how prevalent is really is... Many customer dumps I look at don't seem to have HWIBCPII running. I thought for sure we were running it here, but when I checked just now it wasn't up. After I issued the S HWISTART command, it came up and shut right back down. Looking at the messages, it appears we forgot to update the Support Element on our z13s with the community name, etc. necessary to enable this function. (Oops. :-[ ) Oh yeah, and I need to set up a slew of HWI security profiles in RACF with our new CPC serial number. Ugh. Another time... Also, keep in mind that BCPii is an LPAR-only facility. You get the following messages if you dare try to start it on a z/OS system running as a z/VM guest: HWI016I THE BCPII COMMUNICATION RECOVERY ENVIRONMENT IS 183 NOW ESTABLISHED. HWI010I BCPII DOES NOT OPERATE ON A VM GUEST. BCPII INITIALIZATION 184 IS HALTED. HWI006I BCPII ADDRESS SPACE HAS ENDED. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 831 Parkview Drive North El Segundo, CA 90245 http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
