Specifications

Chapter 4. z/VM notes 55
4.2 IPL and logon
We used the following zPDT command to IPL this system:
$ ipl 200 parm 0700
The 0700 is the address of a 3270 terminal. The initial IPL may produce the stand-alone
loader panel shown in Figure 4-1 or it may go directly to the OPERATOR session, depending
on z/VM customization. If the stand-alone loader panel is displayed, the IPL parameters
(shown in Figure 4-1) may need to be changed. The pdvol parameter must point to the
address of the VMCOM1 volume and the cons parameter is the address of a local 3270.
Figure 4-1 Stand Alone loader
After changing any Stand Alone loader IPL parameters, press PF10 to load z/VM. The local
3270 you specified (0700) is automatically logged on as user OPERATOR. The initial panel
should look something like Figure 4-2 on page 56.
Note: The standard z/VM 6.2 contains slightly different IPL parameters. We changed these by
logging onto MAINT620 and entering the following command:
SALIPL 123 (EXTENT 1 IPLPARMS fn=SYSTEM ft=CONFIG pdnum=1 pdvol=0206 cons=0700
This command changed the default IPL parameters (in the Stand Alone loader) to the values
indicated.
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User MAINT cannot be logged on when using this command.
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Thanks to Bruce Hayden for helping with this.
STAND ALONE PROGRAM LOADER: z/VM VERSION 6 RELEASE 1.0
DEVICE NUMBER: 0200 MINIDISK OFFSET: 00000000 EXTENT: 1
MODULE NAME: CPLOAD LOAD ORIGIN: 1000
--------------------------------IPL PARAMETERS--------------------------------
fn=SYSTEM ft=CONFIG pdnum=1 pdvol=0206 cons=0700
-----------------------------------COMMENTS-----------------------------------
9= FILELIST 10= LOAD 11= TOGGLE EXTENT/OFFSET