Sites that cannot afford to plan a global outage may also need to add or remove CTC devices. Beginning at release 12.0, users can define or remove CTC devices dynamically using the process below.
For this example, we are establishing a CTCPATH between systems JF03 and JF13. The device to be used is '0B35'. Currently, this device is not defined to MIM:
DEV SYSTEM STATE IO-STAT READS WRITES ERR TIME/RSV CYCLES
XCF JF13 USABLE 0 0 0
N/A JF03 LOCAL 0 0 0.000395 73
0B43 JF62 USABLE IDLE 0 0 0
1843 JF62 USABLE IDLE 0 0 0
1835 JF13 USABLE IDLE 28 28 0
Release: MIM R12.5; MIM R12.1
Component: All
F MIM,CTCPATH FROMSYSTEM=lpar ADDRESS=dddd
JF03:
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/CTCPATH FROMSYSTEM=JF03 ADDRESS=0B35
/MIM0067I Command CTCPATH 655
/MIM0703I Path added for device 0B35
JF13:
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/CTCPATH FROMSYSTEM=JF13 ADDRESS=0B35
/MIM0067I Command CTCPATH 603
/MIM0703I Path added for device 0B35
/MIM0413I 0B35 path now available from system JF13 to system JF03
/D PATHS
/MIM0067I Command DISPLAY 937
/MIM0176 MIM PATH DISPLAY:
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DEV SYSTEM STATE IO-STAT READS WRITES ERR TIME/RSV CYCLES
0B35 JF03 USABLE IDLE 0 0 0
N/A JF13 LOCAL 0 0 0
0B73 JF62 USABLE IDLE 0 0 0
1873 JF62 USABLE IDLE 0 0 0
> 1835 JF03 IN-USE IDLE 64 64 0.001210 64
XCF JF03 USABLE 0 0 0
F MIM,DEALLOCATE CTC=dddd
F MIM,CTC SWITCH