Change Hardware Vital Product Data

Use this service aid to display the Display/Alter VPD Selection Menu. The all resources installed on the system. When a resource is selected a me displayed that lists all the VPD for that resource.

Note: The user cannot alter the VPD for a specific resource unless it i readable.

Configure Dials and LPFKeys

This service aid provides a tool for configuring and removing dials/LPFKs to asynchronous serial ports.

Since

version

4.1.3

a

tty

must

be

defined

on

the async port

before th

LPFKs

can

be

configured on

the port. Before version 4.2 the Dials and LPFK

only

be

configured

on

the

standard serial ports. At version

4.2

the Dials

can be configured on any

async

port.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This

selection

invokes

the

SMIT utility

to

allow

Dials

and

LPFKs

configuration.

must be in the available

state on the async port before the Dials and

configured on

the

port. The task

allows

an

async

adapter

to

be

configure

tty port defined on the

adapter,

and then

Dials

and LPFKs

can

be define

port.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Configure

ISA

Adapter

 

 

 

 

 

This

task

invokes

SMIT

to allow the identification

and

configuration

of ISA

on systems that have an ISA bus and adapters.

 

 

 

Diagnostic

support

for

ISA adapters not shown in

the

list may be

supporte

supplemental diskette. ISA adapter support can be added from a supplement diskette with the Process Supplemental Media task.

Whenever an ISA adapter is installed, this service aid must be run and configured before the adapter can be tested. This service aid must a remove an ISA adapter from the system whenever an ISA adapter is physic removed from the system.

If diagnostics are run on an ISA adapter that has been removed from th diagnostics fail because the ISA adapter cannot be detected by the s

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