If memory serves me right, I think BMC had something in one of the auto operations products, that was a PC/Server application that acted as a console. With that, the PC/Server application could take action based on the console traffic.
But, maybe I dreamed that :) Sent with Proton Mail secure email. ------- Original Message ------- On Friday, March 17th, 2023 at 9:21 AM, Richard McIntosh <richard.mcint...@oracle.com> wrote: > A healthcheck would be nice. I normally do check the syslog following IPLs, > but forgot to check this lpar. Had several other lpars being IPL'd. > > Richard > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU On Behalf Of > Mark Zelden > > Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2023 7:32 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: [External] : Re: linklist error at IPL > > 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: > https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html__;!!ACWV5N9M2RV99hQ!Phf8pdW2TZtTCS1AQJE_5ft-eBZY0rQYttub1DhutrqWScssfSssBV6hkFOJUKuJ307RC4uk0o6ZrJT6RA$ > > > 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
