>Barbara, I share your pain. We had a similar failure because of a >hardware failure in the console device itself. We were able to get the >console offline by re-directing all its messages to another console. >After repairs, we got it back online and active as a console with nary a >problem. You can find the redirection mechanism under the CONTROL >command in the Operator's Guide.
Thanks Rick. Well, I was told that IBM assumes it was 'a network problem' (and not something in the OSA card itself) that caused the channel control check to be presented. IBM then took the cop-out and said that to be 100% sure they will need to have a trace active in the OSA card that needs to get stopped within 5 minutes after the problem occuring. Never mind that IBM does not tell us *how* to detemine that it was this problem and how to stop the trace in the time window, especially at o:dark:30. So much for finding the *cause* of the problem. None of this addresses the bad recovery part in commtask that I alluded to yesterday. Something must have been real screwy: This morning we found out that the console in question was still stopped. When I went there I saw that it was showing messages from the time of the actual first I/O error. That console was shown as COND=A with an online UCB and NBUF=0 (indicating no messages queued) on a D C right before I went there. I typed the standard wake-up command "D T". This resulted in the emulation session terminating, reconnecting immediately and showing me a completely empty screen. Well, it prompted me for logon at the bottom (which fits with the last thing seen in log, namely logoff forced by some IEECV module yesterday morning when my colleague had done the vary online command that relieved the wto buffer shortage). The first message then shown on the console was current. There is a huge gap in messages presented to the consoles! Has anyone seen consoles (after console restructure) in state cond=a with no messages actually on the screen and commtask not even attempting to queue messages there? What good is a console that you can't rely on? okay, back into my corner, stop ranting. Barbara ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
