I used to work for a company and during this time we developed an SYSREXX launched as soon as possible after IPL, that has the following purposes:
a) Using Showzos, it takes a photo of the current IPL, saving the information into a Dataset GDG. It has information about IPL addresses, APF libraries, Linklist, Lpa, subsystems, and so. Very useful if you want some information from past IPLs. b) It lists the current Linklist and APF, and compares them to the PROGxx member of PARMLIB. If something is missing or different, a WTO is issued. c) It also checked if all LPA Datasets were on disk. Best Regards Ituriel do Nascimento Neto z/OS System Programmer Em quinta-feira, 16 de março de 2023 às 21:46:16 BRT, Mark Jacobs <00000224d287a4b1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> escreveu: Personally I use Netview's CANZLOG functionally post-ipl to review syslog, filtering on descriptor codes that I find interesting. Adding this to your PROGxx member allows Netview to view messages that were issued prior to the subsystem being initialized, including NIP messages. EXIT ADD EXITNAME(CNZ_MSGTOSYSLOG) MODNAME(DSI4LCUI) Mark Jacobs Sent from ProtonMail, Swiss-based encrypted email. GPG Public Key - https://api.protonmail.ch/pks/lookup?op=get&search=markjac...@protonmail.com ------- Original Message ------- On Thursday, March 16th, 2023 at 8:31 PM, Mark Zelden <m...@mzelden.com> wrote: > I know there are lots of critical errors that can happen during NIP so I > don't know > exactly where to draw the line, but it would be great if the OS could flag > things like > this (missing LNKLST library, missing LPA library or MLPA, missing SVCs) and > then > reflect the error in a health check post IPL. Normal console automation could > catch > that easily and warn someone and it could be fixed and the system re-IPLed at > the time. > > Personally, for planned IPLs I always check NIP on at least on one system in > a sysplex > if multiple systems are being IPLed (parms / sysres are shared anyway). > > Regards, > > Mark > -- > Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS > ITIL v3 Foundation Certified > mailto:m...@mzelden.com > Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html > > > On Thu, 16 Mar 2023 17:20:36 -0500, Steve Horein steve.hor...@gmail.com wrote: > > > Do you have any kind of automation package available to you? > > > > On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 8:11 AM Richard McIntosh < > > richard.mcint...@oracle.com> wrote: > > > > > Is there anyway to get alerted to a linklist error duing the IPL process. > > > The error messages come out to early for any MPF processing to hilite it > > > and they rolled by to quick for operations to notice and caused TLMS to > > > not > > > get initialized. Dataset is not in master catalog and the wrong volser was > > > specified. > > > > > > IGGN307I SYSP01,SYSR.TLMS.R14MA.CTAPLINK,DATA SET NOT FOUND ON > > > VOLUME > > > > > > IEA716I UNABLE TO OPEN LIBRARY - LNKLST DATA SET IGNORED > > > > > > SYSR.TLMS.R14MA.CTAPLINK > > > > > > I googled an old (18 years ago) message about someone using the IEAVMXIT > > > exit to check some storage to see if any error flags were set, but there > > > was no mention of what storage it was. > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > Richard McIntosh > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
