Summary of changes

This section describes the technical changes made in this edition of the book and in previous editions. This edition may also include minor corrections and editorial changes that are not identified.

Summary of Changes
for SG24-7039-01
for The Complete Partitioning Guide for IBM  pSeries Servers
as created or updated on December 19, 2003.

October 2003, Second Edition

This revision reflects the addition, deletion, or modification of new and changed information described below.

New information

The following chapters are new:

• Chapter 10, “Dynamic reconfiguration using DLPAR scripts” on page 329

• Chapter 11, “Resource sets” on page 341

• Chapter 12, “Autonomic applications” on page 375

• Appendix D, “Using the Job Scheduling Console” on page 471

• Appendix E, “Advanced DLPAR script examples” on page 483

• Appendix F, “Autonomic application example” on page 489

Changed information

The following chapters were rewritten in order to cover new features, enhancements, and usage examples provided by the latest products:

• Chapter 4, “HMC graphical user interface” on page 129

• Chapter 9, “DLPAR operation using a command line interface” on page 277

Unchanged information

The following chapters and appendixes are unchanged but reviewed again:

• Chapter 1, “Logical partitioning overview” on page 3

• Chapter 2, “Partitioning implementation on pSeries servers” on page 17

• Chapter 3, “Dynamic logical partitioning” on page 53

• Chapter 5, “Basic managed system operation tasks” on page 151

• Chapter 6, “Creating and managing partitions” on page 165

• Chapter 7, “Installing and migrating AIX in a partitioned environment” on page 201

• Chapter 8, “DLPAR operation using graphical user interface” on page 255

• Appendix A, “Test environment” on page 389

• Appendix B, “Dynamic logical partitioning program templates” on page 407

• Appendix C, “Dynamic logical partitioning output samples” on page 449

January 2003, First Edition

The first version of this book was written by the following authors:

Keigo Matsubara, Akichika Ozeki, Erlander Lo, Deniz S. Erguvan, Jennifer Davis, Theeraphong Thitayanun, Viraf Patel

The following list shows contributors for the first version of this book:

IBM Austin

Andy McLaughlin, Ann Wigginton, Bob Foster, Bob Minns, Carolyn Scherrer, Christopher Chan, David Sheffield, Dave Willoughby, Duke Paulsen, Edward Shvartsman, Jane Chilton, John O’Quin, John Purcell, Julie Craft, Kanisha Patel, Larry Amy, Luke Browning, Mark Rogers, Michael Mall, Michael S. Williams, Minh Nguyen, Paul B. Finley, Randy Swanberg, Richard Cutler, Steven Molis, Susan Caunt, Trish Pierce, Truc Nguyen, and Walter Lipp

IBM Philadelphia

Rob Jackard

IBM Poughkeepsie

Michael Schmidt and Ron Goering