On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:46:24 -0400, Pinnacle <pinnc...@rochester.rr.com> wrote:
>----- Original Message ----- >From: "Barbara Nitz" <nitz-...@gmx.net> >Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main >Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 5:23 AM >Subject: And you ask why I hate OMVS? > > >> This past weekend I had the dubious honour of shutting down and IPLing 5 >> systems, two of them with USS work. The shutting down part was really bad >> (now I know why our operators keep complaining). >> ><snip> > >Barbara, > >There is a job that used to be on the USS Tools and Toys pages that would >run a BPX batch step to kill all active tasks. I don't have the job handy, >but I'll see if I can track it down and send it to you. I only ran it when >the shutdown forkinit didn't work, but it usually nuked any OMVS process >that was hanging up shutdown. Check out Zelden's page, he may have it >there. You're thinking of BPXSTOP. We used that a long time ago. It may cause a problem with shared file systems. Our old shutdown used to be: F BPXOINIT,SHUTDOWN=FORKINIT F BPXOINIT,SHUTDOWN=FILESYS S BPXSTOP Now we just use "F OMVS,SHUTDOWN" The z/OS Unix System Services Planning manual has information about planned shutdowns using both methods. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:mark.zel...@zurichna.com z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
