13 Mar
1998
13 Mar
'98
8:03 p.m.
I convinced the 5363 to give me Service mode. (Diddled with plugs behind
the keyswitch until it let me try IPLing.). The IPL fails, someone has
nuked these harddisks. (Erased, not destroyed). So, I have the whole
set of SSP, RPG, and Utilities disks, how do I do a reload? I have the directions
for doing this on a 5360, but not 5363. I'm at the microcode loading stage,
but where the 5360 has 1 disk for microcode, I have 2. I can finish loading
the 1st disk, but I can't get it to load the second - I don't know how.
Anyone know?
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14 Mar
14 Mar
1:11 a.m.
At 11:03 PM 3/13/98 -0800, you wrote:
I convinced the 5363 to give me Service mode. (Diddled
with plugs behind
the keyswitch until it let me try IPLing.). The IPL fails, someone has
nuked these harddisks. (Erased, not destroyed). So, I have the whole
set of SSP, RPG, and Utilities disks, how do I do a reload? I have the
directions
for doing this on a 5360, but not 5363. I'm at the
microcode loading stage,
but where the 5360 has 1 disk for microcode, I have 2. I can finish loading
the 1st disk, but I can't get it to load the second - I don't know how.
Anyone know?
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I just did this on a new (new to my 5363) disk about one year ago. I have a
manual page here somewhere with all the details--if I can find it I'll send
you the info later. If you're in a big hurry, do a DejaNews search in
comp.sys.ibm.sys3x.misc on "microcode load" or something along those lines.
I know it's been discussed there in the last year or so.
You should also try to install the latest PTFs if you have them. You
wouldn't happen to have S/36 Common Ordinary Business Obfuscation Language
would you?
Thank you,
David Wollmann
dwollmann(a)ibmhelp.com
DST ibmhelp.com Technical Support
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5:29 a.m.
[COBOL? Are you NUTS?]
Of course not! What do I look like, some kind of a freak or something?
It only has RPG II. I did get it to load. The problem was a very large nasty
mess of something on the Microcode disk. I had to go dig up another.
Now, I have to find out what to DO with it...
Apparetly you HAVE to have a printer to do anything useful. Can I go
hang a PC printer off this, or do I have to go dig up a twinax printer?
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7:17 a.m.
At 08:29 AM 3/14/98 -0800, you wrote:
[COBOL? Are you NUTS?]
Of course not! What do I look like, some kind of a freak or something?
It only has RPG II. I did get it to load. The problem was a very large
nasty
mess of something on the Microcode disk. I had to go
dig up another.
Now, I have to find out what to DO with it...
Apparetly you HAVE to have a printer to do anything useful. Can I go
hang a PC printer off this, or do I have to go dig up a twinax printer?
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At the console:
SYSLIST CRT
That will put everything to the console. If you don't have a printer, you
can put a 5250 card in a cheapo-depo Intel box (anything from XT to 386,
but speed may kill in this case), and hang a 5152-compatible printer on it.
You'll need PC Support/36.
Thank you,
David Wollmann
dwollmann(a)ibmhelp.com
DST ibmhelp.com Technical Support
http://www.ibmhelp.com/
--
Support for legacy IBM products.
Data, document and file conversion for legacy
IBM file and media formats.
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