If anyone is in the throws of putting the SMF LOGGER into production, I would seriously hold up and wait a while. We have been up on it for about three months and have gone through one problem, hurdle, consequence, challenge, etc, after another.
Today the issue is with when you shutdown a system or worse if you need to bring down the entire sysplex. "Z EOD" does not interface to the SMF LOGGER and the operators usually blow the systems away when they receive the message which says EOD is done. The significance is the logger is still doing its thing and now break it; causing all kinds of grief later. IBM has a temporary fix where you issue a set of commands per LPAR before the Halt EOD but so far they have not worked. Besides so far, the commands do not tell you when the logger is completed doing its think. Although when the set of commands do work, hopefully it will tell an operator something of its completion. Remember, the intent of this is for your operators to visit every LPAR shutting down and wait for each. This will bring new meaning to the idea of a fast sysplex wide IPL. Everyone including IBM agrees "Z EOD" needs to be tap everyone on the shoulder to have its logger to do what it should do and then tell HALT, it is now done; thus giving the message which is now real. So to do this, we are submitting as "Marketing Request" to IBM to get all the players to talk to each other to sort through this "situation" (not to be confused with a problem). Things are working as intended except no one thought this all the way through and the cardinal word is "intended". Will keep you posted as things unravel. jim (WashDC) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
