PATHS operation

This operation reports the channel path and associated path group IDs for a device. You can perform this operation regardless of whether XRC or concurrent copy is active on the system. You can issue the MODIFY PATHS command from a system which has the ANTAS000 address space active or from any ANTASnnn active address space.

Example: Issue the following command to activate the PATHS function:

F ANTAS000, PATHS ddd

ddd indicates a device number.

Result: The following is an example output when you specify the F40 device number:

F ANTAS001,PATHS F40

ANTX8977I 0F40 - CPID=**  PGID=000006064C2064B8F76671
ANTX8977I 0F40 - CPID=52  PGID=0000000000000000000000 
ANTX8977I 0F40 - CPID=53  PGID=0000000000000000000000 
ANTX8977I 0F40 - CPID=7E  PGID=000006064C2064B8F76671
ANTX8977I 0F40 - CPID=7F  PGID=000006064C2064B8F76671

This output has the following meaning:

0F40 is the device number
CPID is the channel path ID
PGID is the path group ID
The line with the CPID of '**' shows the initial PGID that z/OS® sends to the storage control
A PGID of all zeros indicates one of the following conditions:
- The path group is physically unavailable
- All the devices associated with the channel path were offline when the channel path was varied online