I do now. :-) Somehow it got missed a long time ago and nobody noticed it.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Radoslaw Skorupka Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2021 5:36 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [External] Re: z14 HMC log information Just curious: do you have CL(OPERCMDS) MVS.QUIESCE not protected with proper ACL or just the SDSF-like product somehow bypassed OPERCMDS security? BTW: I used QUIESCE solely for education purposes - that shows how HMC facilities cooperate with the system. No other uses. -- Radoslaw Skorupka (looking for new job) Lodz, Poland W dniu 22.03.2021 o 23:18, Pommier, Rex pisze: > OK, this is embarrassing. We found the problem - but don't know the culprit. > We discovered the quiesce command wasn't locked down and somebody somewhere > keyed it in. The reason we don't know who/where is because our SDSF-like > product had the capability to also do a quiesce and since we didn't know > that's what caused it, we IPLed the LPAR. I did some research after the fact > to determine just how quiesce works (been working on these things for 30 > years and never had a reason to even play with quiesce). Now I know - and I > know how to make the machine go again, picking up where it stopped. PSW > Restart from the HMC doesn't do what I consider a "restart" but a "take the > brakes off and let it run". :-) > > IBM hardware support found the wait state and informed us of it. > > Thanks everybody for the bandwidth and suggestions. > > Rex > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of > kekronbekron > Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2021 8:50 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: [External] Re: z14 HMC log information > > Please do share when you find out! > > I wonder if an LPAR with full BCPii authority over the box can silently > query/log information from the HMC for monitoring, i.e., actions occuring not > via BCPii itself, but just accessing HMC logs. > > - KB > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > On Wednesday, March 17, 2021 6:17 PM, Carmen Vitullo <cvitu...@hughes.net> > wrote: > >> so the only other thing I can think of is if you are in a sysplex and your >> SFM policy took the system out of the plex, XCF may have not seen a >> heartbeat in a long enough time it partitioned the system from the plex, >> I've had this happen before, you should see some IXC messages if this >> happened. >> when this happened to me there was no indication anyone did anything >> the system was just removed from the plex >> >> Carmen Vitullo >> >> -----Original Message----- >> >> From: Rex rpomm...@sfgmembers.com >> To: IBM-MAIN IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >> Date: Tuesday, 16 March 2021 4:33 PM CDT >> Subject: Re: z14 HMC log information >> >> Nothing out of the ordinary in the HMC logs. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU On Behalf >> Of Carmen Vitullo >> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 1:10 PM >> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >> Subject: [External] Re: z14 HMC log information >> >> so it looks like one place to check is from the HMC, /console >> actions/View control tasks performed, this may get you what you need >> another place is from console actions, View console events >> >> Carmen Vitullo >> >> -----Original Message----- >> >> From: Rex rpomm...@sfgmembers.com >> To: IBM-MAIN IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >> Date: Tuesday, 16 March 2021 12:51 PM CDT >> Subject: Re: z14 HMC log information >> >> I found the log - nothing in it. Heading off to IBM. >> >> Rex >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU On Behalf >> Of Pommier, Rex >> >> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 12:24 PM >> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >> Subject: [External] z14 HMC log information >> >> Hi all, >> >> Probably a simple question but I'm not having any luck looking for it so I'm >> asking here. >> >> Is there a centralized place on a z14 HMC to show activity occurring, LPAR >> activation/deactivation, pretty much anything that happens on an HMC or on a >> z. We just took a hit where one of our LPARs and we're not seeing anything. >> No hardware messages, no dumps, no nothing. The syslog on the LPAR shows >> everything running as normal then it just stopped, 15 minutes later are the >> IPL starting messages. It almost looks like somebody hit the "deactivate" >> button on the HMC so I'm looking for any log info from a hardware point of >> view. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Rex >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN The information contained in this message is confidential, protected from disclosure and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, distribution, copying, or any action taken or action omitted in reliance on it, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. 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