On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:44:13 -0400, Tony Harminc <[email protected]> wrote:
>On 21 April 2010 02:41, R.S. <[email protected]> wrote: > >> IMHO the best way to stop I/O and clear or the reservations is to use HMC Reset icon. > >Sure - it stops the I/O and resets the state of just about everything. >So does a really big hammer, when swung by a skilled hand. But what >happens to a DASD write operation that is in progress at the time of >reset? Hint: Data transfer from the channel stops, but the write does >not. > So what's your point? Are you suggesting that one should use QUIECE as the last thing when you ready to shutdown z/OS running in a local sysplex or a monoplex - then do a reset? Obviously you can't do this for a system in a sysplex. Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:[email protected] Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
