If any channel communication is used to access Vantage, devices for one or more Channel Processors must be added to the MVS I/O configuration. Only Channel Processors (CP) are defined to the z/OS system. Other Vantage server hardware and peripherals are not.
All CPs for one TDP must be associated with the same logical host id, which is defined using the Configuration Utility (described in Support Utilities , B035-1180 ) specifying a Host Type Designator of 'IBM'. CPs are associated with a logical host using the Vantage Parallel Upgrade Tool, described in the Parallel Upgrade Tool (PUT) Reference appropriate to the Database operating system. PUT refers to CPs as MF Channel connections. When multiple Vantage systems have logical host ids with CPs accessed by TDPs in the same MVS image, all these Logical-host ids must be unique.
Device Connection
Devices are connected to the client through a channel. Each CP is identified by a pair of consecutive even-odd device numbers. The first number, for the output device, must be even (low-order bit = 0). The second, for the input device, must be odd (low-order bit = 1).
- Is dedicated to a single TDP through a single channel interface
- Can be online to only one z/OS system at a time
- Does not support multiple channel connections
- Can be used by different TDPs at different times
The physical implementation of a Teradata device may vary in different Vantage servers. Each physical processor has a single channel interface that provides the only channel interface for all device pairs associated with that processor.
- One physical processor implements a single pair of devices
- One physical processor implements multiple pairs of devices
Physical Connection
- Enterprise Systems Connection (ESCON)
- Fibre-channel Connection (FICON)
Each FICON Bridge supports up to eight different ESCON CUs.
You must define the CPs to both the hardware and the operating system as shown in the following sections.
Hardware Configuration Definition
Hardware Configuration Definition (HCD) is a program used to define the I/O configuration to both z/OS and the channel subsystem.
HCD is primarily an interactive tool and therefore uses a hierarchy of displays known as panels instead of the control statements of older methods.