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You have been presented with a newly delivered, commisioned z9 Series mainframe and need to develop the IO configuration from what you see...

Here is an example to help.

You open the front of the box and see something like the following pictures (left, centre, right). 

What have we got here?

The cards (from left to right)...

1. Fast ethernet
2. FICON
3. FICON
4. blank
5. power
6. FICON
7. blank
8. blank
9. ESCON
10. FICON
11. Fast ethernet
12. blank
13. FICON
14. power
15. blank
16. FICON
17. ESCON
18. blank

We should now go the Service Element and logon with SYSPROG and the usual "password".

• Select CPC
• Select CPC Configuration Menu
• Select Channel to CHPID Assignment

For example...

The column headings are as follows...

1. channel location cage - card slot - jack
2. boot - MBA - jack
3. channel state
4. PCHID
5. CSS - CHPID
6. card type

A01B-D102-J.00 / 0-02-0 / Online/ 0110 / 0.10 / FICON exp 4

A01B-D103-J.00 / 0-07-0 / Online/ 0120 / 0.20 / FICON exp 4

A01B-D106-J.00 / 0-07-0 / Online/ 0140 / 0.40 / FICON exp 4

A01B-D110-J.00 / 0-07-0 / Online/ 0180 / 0.80 / FICON exp 4

lots of "reserved" entries

A01B-LG01-J.00 / 0-07-0 / Online/ 0100 / 0.00 / OSA express

A01B-LG01-J.00 / 0-07-0 / Online/ 0101 / 0.01 / OSA express

A01B-LG09-J.00 / 0-02-0 / Online/ 0170 / 0.70 / 16 port ESCON

lots of "reserved" entries

A01B-LG17-J.00 / 0-07-1 / Online/ 01E0 / 0.E0 / 16 port ESCON

etc

View the attachment to see how this might be interpreted.

• Hardware