Use this command to start a MPIF path or device.
Requirements and Restrictions
None.
Format
- Path
- starts a path.
- Name-path
- starts the specified path, where path is a 1- to 8-character
alphanumeric path name.
- System-sysname
- starts all the paths in the specified system, where sysname is a
1- to 8-character alphanumeric system name; for example, TPF.
- ALL
- starts all the inactive paths.
- Device
- starts a device.
- Name-$device
- starts the specified device, where $device is a 1- to 7-character
alphanumeric generic device name that begins with the $ character.
- ALL
- starts all the offline devices.
Additional Information
- Online help information is available for this command. To display
the help information, enter ZMPIF START HELP.
- Paths that are defined with a START status start automatically when you
perform an initial program load (IPL).
- Devices that are defined with an ONLINE status start automatically when
you perform an IPL.
Examples
The specified path is started in the following example, where:
- SYSTEM
- is the name of the system.
- CLASS
- is the path class assigned to the path.
- VIA
- is the device.
- RSDA
- is the symbolic device address of the read device assigned to the
path.
- WSDA
- is the symbolic device address of the write device assigned to the
path.
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|User: ZMPIF START P,N-CPUC.B1 |
| |
|System: MPIF0028I 06.56.47 PATH(S) STARTED |
| CBT10003I 13.23.52 |
| MPIF PATH CPUB.B1 ESTABLISHED TO |
| SYSTEM - CPUB CLASS - B |
| VIA - $CTOC05 RSDA - 138A WSDA - 138B |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Related Information
See TPF Multi-Processor Interconnect Facility
Reference for more information about MPIF.