We're running a two member sysplex.  We have a user who wants to do some testing of ICSF.  The IBM zPDT Guide and Reference System z Personal Development Tool manual does a good job of explaining the DEVMAP and zOS changes, bur has no Information on zVM.  How do I set up zVM to support the testing?

Sherri,

The simple answer is you need to update the zVM USER DIRECTORY configuration for the guest that wants to use ICSF.  We have no zVM experts on the RD&T team so the likelihood of finding someone that can point you to the exact changes required is slim.  I suggest you look at a couple of books for hints.

Seems like a hole to me.  The manual should at lease mention there would be zVM USER DIRECT changes.

Sherri,

I'm sorry you feel that way.  The fact is that RD&T is a system z architecture emulator with a reference implementation of z/OS.  If you buy the Parallel Sysplex version you get access to a reference implementation of zVM in order to run your sysplex on. In order to get the Parallel Sysplex version of the product, you had to sign off on the fact that you had zVM expertise or could acquire it, and you had Parallel Sysplex knowledge or could acquire it.  Since we don't warrant the z software stack, I'm not sure how you could perceive your need to modify the zVM configuration as a "hole".

RDzJohn

I'm not sure where zPDT support ends and RD&T support begins, so this may me more appropriate for zPDT support, to which I do not have access.  My feeling is that sysplex is supported and that requires zVM setup and a zVM setup (USER DIRECT) is supplied for that.  Crypto requires zVM also.  Why can't it be documented also?

Anyhow, We got it to work.  Here are the steps and my comments.

DEVMAP - I added the documented Adjunct-processor stanza as documented in the zPDT Redbook.  I added only one Crypto.  Please note that the Adjunct-processor stanza must follow the cpuopt statement for awsstart to work.

zVM - I added CRYPTO DOMAIN 0 APDED 0  to the S0W1 user definition in USER DIRECT right after the CPU definitions.  It is more complicated to specify for both S0W1 and S0W2 and we needed only one of the systems for our user to test.

zOS/ICSF - Some of the setup documentation in the zPDT Redbook are out of date.  I ended up using the ISCF Systems Programmer's Guide (SA22-7520-17)  instead.

I'll leave this open and include instructions on the USER DIRECT entries when I ger it to work.