I've never understood why a wait-stated system needs to be system reset. It reminds me of the story about the hunter whose buddy is accidentally shot. (No partisan aspersions intended.) The guy is distraught and calls 911 in a panic. 'My friend just got killed in a hunting accident!'
'First' says the lady at the other end, 'you need to make sure he's really dead'. Pause. BANG. 'OK, I'm sure. Now what?' I can't see any harm in a system reset, but really, does anyone know why it's done? If so, we need to retrain all our operators. ;-) Walter Marguccio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU> 04/20/2006 01:06 AM Please respond to Walter Marguccio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU cc Subject Fw: IXC102A automated by SFM ? Sorry guys, my reply had obviously nothing to do with PDSE and LNKLST ... wrong subject. Walter Marguccio ----- Original Message ---- From: "Cox, Dave" [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Works quite well here where we get JES2 down ( we forget about Z EOD > here - I was shocked that they did not do it here, but have gotten used > to it ), and follow steps 1 through 4 manually. It doesn't take me any > time at all to carefully go through those steps. > Interesting idea of automating beyond JES2-down state. Dave, there's nothing wrong in following steps 1 to 4 manually. However, steps 3 and 4 must be executed without ANY delay, otherwise the whole sysplex will hang. Specifically, system reset must be executed only after the LPAR goes in wait state 0A2. Once the LPAR is reset, then the DOWN reply follows. If you delay the reply for whatever reason, the other LPARs in the sysplex will hang. This is the reason why I'd rather automated both steps, leaving SFM to do this. What I still miss, is if SFM can automate the reply to IXC102A, or an automation package must step in. Walter Marguccio ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
