Vary

Vary

Purpose: Use the Vary command to take devices online/offline, change console status, and take paths online/offline.

V PATH
{([/]devnum,chp[,[/]devnum,chp]...)                                }
{                                                                  }
{(([/]devnum[,[/]devnum]...),chp                                   }
{ [,([/]devnum[,[/]devnum]...),chp]...)                           }
{                                                                  }
{(([/]lowdevnum-[/]highdevnum],[/]lowdevnum-[/]highdevnum]...),chp }
{ [,([/]lowdevnum-[/]highdevnum[),chp]...)                        }
{                                                                  }
{(cfname,chp[,cfname,chp]...)                                      }
{                                                                  }
{((cfname[,cfname]...),chp                                         }
{ [,(cfname[,cfname]...),chp]...)                                }
{,ONLINE[,FORCE]}
{,OFFLINE[,UNCOND | ,FORCE]}

Parameters

Table 4-39 summarizes the information that the VARY command provides. Use it to access the pages on which you can find details about a particular use of the VARY command.

Note: To change the online or offline status of processors, channel paths, ESTOR elements, vector facilities, expanded storage, and central storage sections, see the CONFIG command.

Command: Topic:

VARY CN,ACTIVATE "Controlling Problem Determination Mode for the System Console" on page 4-528

VARY CN,DEACTIVATE "Controlling Problem Determination Mode for the System Console" on page 4-528

VARY CN "VARY CN command" on page 4-530

VARY ...,CONSOLE "VARY CONSOLE command" on page 4-536

VARY ...,MSTCONS "Changing the Master Console" on page 4-539

VARY ...,HARDCPY "Controlling Hardcopy Processing" on page 4-539

VARY conspec...,ONLINE

VARY conspec...,OFFLINE

"Placing a Secondary Console Online or Offline" on page 4-543

VARY devspec...,AUTOSWITCH "Defining a Tape Device as Automatically

Switchable" on page 4-544

VARY devspec...,ONLINE

VARY devspec...,OFFLINE

"Placing an I/O Device or a Range of I/O Devices Online or Offline" on page 4-545

VARY PATH "Placing an I/O Path or Paths Online or Offline"

"Changing the State of Coupling Facility Cache

Structures and Volumes" on page 4-553

VARY SMS,DRIVE

VARY SMS,LIBRARY

"Placing an Optical Drive or Library Online or

Offline" on page 4-555

VARY SMS,LIBRARY "Placing a System-Managed Tape Library Online

or Offline" on page 4-556

VARY SMS,PDSE,ANALYSIS "Analyzing the State of the PDSE Subsystem" on

page 4-556

VARY SMS,PDSE,FREELATCH "Releasing PDSE Latches" on page 4-556

VARY SMS,STORGRP

VARY SMS,VOLUME

"Changing the SMS Status of a Storage Group or

Volume" on page 4-556

VARY SWITCH "Placing a Switch Port Online or Offline" on

page 4-558

VARY WLM,APPLENV "Controlling an Application Environment" on page 4-559

VARY WLM,POLICY "Activating a Service Policy" on page 4-561

You cannot specify the names of extended MCS consoles or of a system console from the following VARY commands:

	VARY CONSOLE
	VARY OFFLINE
	VARY ONLINE
	VARY MSTCONS

VARY ...,MSTCONS Has sysplex scope when you issue VARY conname,MSTCONS.

Also has sysplex scope when you issue VARY devnum,MSTCONS, but only if you use a common IODF for the specified device across the sysplex.

VARY SMS,

STORGRP|VOLUME

Has sysplex scope under these conditions only:

	You specify (storgrp\|volume,ALL) and all systems in the sysplex are in the same SMS complex.
	You specify (storgrp\|volume, system) where system is a system group, and the system group exactly matches the sysplex (that is, none of the systems in the sysplex is explicitly defined to SMS).

Syntax

The syntax for each variation of the VARY command is shown immediately preceding its respective parameter list.

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