Communicator 3000 MPE/iX Release 6.0 (Platform Software Release C.60.00) (30216-90269)

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System Information and Preparation
Upgrading a Pre-997 Corporate Business Server to a 997
Upgrading a Pre-997 Corporate Business
Server to a 997
by Hank Cureton
Commercial Systems Division
Introduction
The I/O configuration on a 997 server has one additional hardware
layer (the HP-PB I/O bus converter) compared to the earlier Corporate
Business Servers (990, 991, 992, 995, and 996). As a result, the system
I/O configuration on a 997 needs to be updated to reflect this additional
hardware layer.
Example:
A typical SCSI disk device I/O configuration on a 995 would be
described by the following I/O path:
2/52.3.0
The same SCSI disk device I/O configuration on a 997 would be
described by the following I/O path:
2/28/52.3.0
NOTE The HP-PB bus converter always has the fixed slot address 28
(decimal).
The utility packages IOCNVRT and JADETOOL are used to convert the
OS software I/O configuration of a pre-997 Corporate Business Server
to the new 997 I/O configuration format.
IOCNVRT.PUB.SYS
The command file IOCNVRT.PUB.SYS is used to convert the system
SYSGEN I/O configuration from a pre-997 Corporate Business Server
configuration to a 997 configuration, or vice versa.
Syntax:
:IOCNVRT {source group}, {target group}
source group is the name of a valid SYSGEN configuration group in
the SYS account, containing the "source system" I/O
configuration. This is a required parameter. The files in
the source group will remain untouched unless the target
group name is the same as the source group. The group
must exist, and its files must be valid for IOCNVRT to
work.