Just one short question: you have posted the (correct) dialog from the HMCs web GUI where both addresses are shown. How about - instead of grepping the output of lscfg - looking at its unfiltered output, hmm? I mean, grep is for filtering information. To filter something you need to understand what is vital and what is not. So, instead of filtering, look at the whole first. What does i.e.

Code:

[root@xxx] / > lscfg -vl fcs0

tell you? Do you see the WWPN somewhere, which you see in the HMCs GUI? So, there is your answer.

Your guess is correct. The WWPN is - see the explanation above - a property of the adapter and the basis for zoning. So it has to be there prior to any zoning taking place.

Absolutely. But a lifelong experience as a software developer and a systems administrator has taught me one important lesson:

do it as fast as possible - but not faster!

When you start to sacrifice security or quality or reliability for getting "finished" it is time to call it quits. Step back one step, question your objectives and the objectives of the project and ask yourself how to GLOBALLY do the most good. Globally - as opposed to locally - is important here: if you finish a 3-day schedule in 2 days but in a way so that it breaks down in short time and needs another 3-day overhaul you haven't sped up the process, but in fact slowed it down. Knowing that, i take 3 days if it takes 3 days and to hell with some unrealistic promise some non-technical dimwit made just because it looked good on his spreadsheet. If he think it can be done in two days - show me. Chances are he can't.

I remember well the opportunity when i heard Seamour Cray - from Cray Computers fame - talking about developing. It was about the lines of ...you go by taking one step after the other. If you try to take several steps at once you just hop up and down rapidly but in fact get nowhere. To this i have nothing to add.

I hope this helps.

bakunin

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PS: As this thread is dealing with AIX specifics i transfer it to the AIX board.