Physical and logical data in one place

HCM presents an interactive configuration diagram which allows you to maintain not only the logical connectivity data in the IODF, but also the physical information about a configuration. The logical information in the IODF represents the operating system and the channel subsystem definitions; the physical information - cabinets, patchports, crossbar switches, cables, locations, and so on - adds the infrastructure to the logical data.

Furthermore, the logical and physical information for each object in the configuration match because they are created by the same process. When you create an object, you add its logical and physical information at the same time. When you connect, for example, a controller to a processor, the selected control units are logically defined to the selected CHPID through a controller channel interface; the physical connection, including the cable, is displayed visually in the configuration diagram.

Finding and fixing configuration problems is made much easier since physical and logical information cannot diverge. You can, therefore, use HCM to accurately represent your hardware configuration, by supplementing the IODF data.