On Tue, 5 Jan 2010 16:26:06 -0500, Scott Rowe <scott.r...@joann.com> wrote:
>IIRC, the NIP messages are saved in memory until JES2 comes up and they can be written to SYSLOG. If you don't get to that point then you should take a stand alone dump, and you should be able to read them there. > Scott, You are correct -- messages issued early in IPL are buffered until they can be written to the SYSLOG when JES comes up. The buffers are included in a dump. It should be noted that early IPL messages can be written to the HMC system console in addition to/or instead of the z/OS NIP console. While the HMC system console has a number of usability problems, it does allow scrolling backward to see messages. W. Kevin Kelley -- IBM POK Lab -- z/OS Core Technical Development ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
