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Preface
This guide is written for customer personnel who are responsible for
planning the installation of the IBM 3274 Control Unit.
Organization of Manual
This guide has 7 chapters and 13 appendixes:
• Chapter 1, "Planning Your Installation," provides site planning
information for your 3274 installation.
• Chapter 2, "Introduction to Customizing," describes the customizing
operation and how and by whom the 3274 customizing procedure is
performed.
• Chapter 3, "Preparing to Customize," describes the sequence numbers
used in the 3274 customizing procedure. These sequence numbers are
associated with functions and features of the 3274 and guide you
through the customizing procedure. They are grouped by 3274 model
number.
• Chapter 4, "Initial Customizing Procedure," describes how to perform
the initial customizing of the 3274.
• Chapter 5, ''Modification Procedure," describes how to modify a 327 4
configuration without performing the entire customizing procedure.
• Chapter 6, "Backup Diskette Generation Procedures," describes how to
generate .a backup (duplicate) system or load diskette. You can use this
procedure to create a duplicate of your syst.em or load diskette.
• Chapter 7, "Update-Diskette Installation Procedures," describes how to
install an update-diskette package on your customized 3274.
• Appendix A, "Planning Checklist," provides a suggested checklist to
help you plan your installation.
• Appendix B, "3274 Device Cables," provides cable attachment
information, and also channel attachment information for the 3274
Models lA, lB, 10, 21A, 21B, 21D, 31A, and 31D.
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