Esoteric

An esoteric is specified with the UNITNAME statement. For use with esoterics it contains the following parameters:

NAME

Specifies the name of the esoteric (mandatory).

Note: Do not use esoteric names SYSALLDA, SYS3480R, or SYS348XR.

UNIT

Specifies a sequence of consecutive device numbers (optional). The numbers specified must be defined in the configuration.

TOKEN

Allows controlling the order of esoterics in the EDT (optional). Only relevant if you have data sets that are cataloged using esoterics.

Tokens prevent the order of esoterics from becoming alphabetical after IPL, thus avoiding access problems for data sets that are cataloged using esoterics.

If a token is specified for one esoteric you must also specify tokens for all other esoterics.

VIO

States whether or not the devices are eligible for VIO. May only be set to YES if the esoteric contains at least one DASD device type (optional).

Table 1. Esoteric Syntax
Syntax:
`NAME=esoteric_name`	8 alphanumeric characters
`UNIT=((devnum,n)[,(devnum,n)]…)`	four hexadecimal characters followed by a decimal number
`TOKEN=token`	number in the range 1 to 8999
`VIO=value`	YES or NO