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-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2023 7:12 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: JES2 Submitlib Bootstrap problem [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organization. Unless you trust the sender, Don't click links or open attachments as it may be a Phishing email, which can steal your Information and compromise your Computer.] How do you start OMVS SUB=MSTR? I'm not seeing any start command in parmlib. 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 Wednesday, May 10th, 2023 at 7:58 AM, Allan Staller <00000387911dea17-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Classification: Confidential > > OMVS can be started as SUB=MSTR or as a JES task. Che choice is up to the > installation. > Ditto for ZFS. > > What is really being implied is that if JES2 needs OMVS services, it > should not provide those services until OMVS has initialized, > > Many other tasks do this (e.g. TSO). > > My USD $0.02 > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU On Behalf > Of Pommier, Rex > > Sent: Tuesday, May 9, 2023 11:21 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: JES2 Submitlib Bootstrap problem > > [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organization. Unless you > trust the sender, Don't click links or open attachments as it may be a > Phishing email, which can steal your Information and compromise your > Computer.] > > I see a problem with this scenario. It appears to me that there is a call > (not necessarily by Shmuel) to potentially have JES2 wait for OMVS to be up > before it does its startup (or at least completes the startup). Due to a > self-inflicted screw-up on one of our LPARs, OMVS decided it had to do a > filesystem check on every filesystem on the system. This took a good half > hour where it simply appeared our LPAR was hung. JES2 had come up and I was > able to start a few address spaces that are dependent on JES so I could > figure out what was going on. Had JES been waiting for OMVS we would have > been completely in the dark on this issue. > > I could see there being communication between JES and OMVS so that when OMVS > gets initialized it signals JES to redrive any failed zFS allocations, but > don't force JES to wait until zFS is available. > > My $.02. > > Rex > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU On Behalf > Of Seymour J Metz > > Sent: Tuesday, May 9, 2023 10:10 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: JES2 Submitlib Bootstrap problem > > Yes, IBM absolutely should take startup sequence into account and should > provide mechanisms to ensure that things occur in the proper order. This goes > beyond OMVS. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > https://urld/ > efense.com%2Fv3%2F__http%3A%2F%2Fmason.gmu.edu%2F*smetz3__%3Bfg!!KjMRP > 1Ixj6eLE0Fj!oLVba7cIWA-HvwL4aaVssbMaEZeCG3m_dnLPJgpEL8DOiFs5DAJaoVf27k > YVUZyYy_Nw7UxsOVp6sogwmA%24&data=05%7C01%7Callan.staller%40HCL.COM%7Cb > 415b6f48fe746065c5808db514fd81b%7C189de737c93a4f5a8b686f4ca9941912%7C0 > %7C0%7C638193175624293681%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAi > LCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=2 > n3vNh3L5fxsleOK2Cv6N8JNUGJ%2FrUJCmfa4FqFNZDc%3D&reserved=0 > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on > behalf of Paul Gilmartin > [0000042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] > Sent: Tuesday, May 9, 2023 11:01 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: JES2 Submitlib Bootstrap problem > > On Tue, 9 May 2023 12:18:11 +0000, Mark Jacobs wrote: > > > I defined several submitlibs in my JES2PARM to use directories in a ZFS > > filesystem. When I hotstart JES2, JES2 can find everything and is happy. > > During IPL/JES2 startup it's not. It doesn't seem like OMVS is initialized > > yet and so the file systems aren't accessible for JES2 to resolve. I > > haven't fully analyzed the system log to confirm it yet, but it seems like > > a reasonable assumption. Has anyone else run into this? > > WAD? z/OS UNIX appears to be a second-class citizen in that operations that > require UNIX facilities are allowed to begin before UNIX is available, then > simply fail. > > Should design give more attention to the order of startup operations? > > Should there be an implied WAIT (not explicit) for any operation which > requires UNIX? Would that be likely to result in a deadlock? > > -- > gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The information contained in this message is confidential, protected from > disclosure and may be legally privileged. 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