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The z/OS and z/VM Hardware Configuration Manager (HCM) is a
PC based client/server interface to HCD that combines the logical and physical
aspects of hardware configuration management. In addition to the logical
connections, you can also manage the physical aspects of a configuration. For
example, you can effectively manage the flexibility offered by the FICON
infrastructure (cabinet, cabling).
All updates to your configuration are done via HCM’s
intuitive graphical user interface and, most important, due to the
client/server relationship with HCD, all changes of the logical I/O
configuration are written into the IODF and fully validated and checked for
accuracy and completeness by HCD, thus avoiding unplanned system outages due to
incorrect definitions.
For z/OS only, HCM also allows you to display operational
data such as system status information and operate on the switch via an
interface to the I/O Operations function of System Automation on the host.
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