The Load Optical Firmware (LODOPTFMW) command loads optical device firmware into a staging area that can be accessed by the Optical Hardware Service Manager. The Optical Hardware Service Manager must be used to load the firmware onto the device.

Restrictions:

1. This command is shipped with *EXCLUDE public authority.
2. You must have an active optical device although it does not need to be the destination device for the firmware. The system will find the varied on device.

Parameters

Keyword	Description	Choices	Notes
FROMSTMF	From stream file	Path name	Required, Positional 1
TYPE	Device type	Character value	Required, Positional 2
MODEL	Device model	Character value	Required, Positional 3

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From stream file (FROMSTMF)

Specifies the stream file that contains the firmware to be read into cache.

Device type (TYPE)

Specifies the optical media library type that the firmware will eventually be loaded on.

Device model (MODEL)

Specifies the model the firmware is for.

Examples

Example 1: Specify a Media Library

LODOPTFMW   FROMSTMF('/MyDir/MyFile') TYPE(399F)
            MODEL(200)

This command loads the optical device firmware from MyFile into system storage for a 399F Optical Media Library Model 200.

Example 2: Specify an Optical Drive

LODOPTFMW   FROMSTMF('/MyDir/MyFile') TYPE(399F)
            MODEL(001)

This command loads the optical device firmware from MyFile into system storage for a 14x optical drive.

Error messages

*ESCAPE Messages

OPT1114

Error accessing stream file.

OPT1121

Length beyond end of buffer.

OPT1681

An active optical device was not found.

OPT1815

Internal program error occurred.

OPT1821

Error occurred on optical device &1.