Well, this is at once suddenly simpler and more complicated. First off, PARMLIB content cannot matter because we're talking about early IPL. During NIP OS doesn't even know where PARMLIB is located, let alone CONSOLxx contents.
It turns out that we've seen this problem before but did not recognize it this time. After putting the console chpids back online, we got IPLed in the usual way except for this message for each of three different chpids: IOS125I CHPID xx IS EXPERIENCING MULTIPLE I/O TIMEOUTS CAUSING PROLONGED INITIALIZATION. Each of the three chpids connects a large number of Oracle/STK virtual tape units. It appears that some or all of these devices are non-responsive during IPL, causing MIH waits. So we configured the three tape chpids offline and IPLed again. This time (with console chpids back offline) we got NIP messages immediately on OpSysMsg screen. We're left with this puzzle. With console chpids online and tape chpids also online, we still got NIP messages pretty quickly. But with console chpids offline, delay was so bad we thought NIP messages were lost in outer space. So we more or less understand the tape chpid problem. We do not understand the difference in behavior with and without MCS consoles available. That is, after putting tape chpids offline, NIP messages went immediately to HMC. We have opened a PMR with IBM. . . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-302-7535 Office robin...@sce.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Field, Alan Sent: Monday, July 25, 2016 2:18 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Re: IPLing z/OS 2.1+ with no NIP console Have you got an entry for the HMC in your CONSOLxx member? /********************************************************************/ /* INTEGRATED 3270 CONSOLE ON HMC. Z/OS 2.1 AND LATER */ /********************************************************************/ /* */ CONSOLE DEVNUM(HMCS) /* DEVICE NUMBER */ AUTH(MASTER) /* ALL COMMANDS CAN BE ENETERED */ USE(FC) /* FULL CAPABILITY */ NAME(&SYSNAME.HMCS) /* CONSOLE NAME */ ROUTCODE(1-10,12) /* 14=IEFACTRT, 15=TDS999 */ CON(N) /* NON-CONVERSATIONAL MODE */ SEG(19) /* NUMBER OF LINES THAT CAN BE DEL */ DEL(R) /* ROLL */ RNUM(39) /* MAX LINES IN ONE MESSAGE ROLL */ RTME(1/4) /* NUMBER SECONDS BETWEEN MSG ROLL */ MFORM(J,T,S) /* MESSAGE DISPLAY INCLUDES JOBNAME*/ MSCOPE(*ALL) /* *ALL = DISPLAY ALL MSGS */ AREA(NONE) /* SIZE OF OUT OF LINE DISPLAY AREA*/ PFKTAB(PFKMSTR) /* NAME OF PFK TABLE */ Alan Field Systems Engineer Principal Blue Cross Blue Shield of MN 651.662.3546 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jesse 1 Robinson Sent: Monday, July 25, 2016 4:15 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: IPLing z/OS 2.1+ with no NIP console We've discussed on this List configuring no NIP console device and using HMC instead. I'm testing that practice for the future by configuring off the two chpids that support all MCS/NIP consoles for one LPAR. I have done that in the past when actual NIP device(s) would not work. NIP messages showed up on Operating System Messages and all was fine. Now however we are getting no NIP messages at all. Three HMCs each with an integrated 3270 at z/OS 2.1. We expected NIP messages on either the 3270 or on traditional Op Sys Msg. Nada. Has anyone with a NIPless configuration reached 2.1? Any special considerations? . . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-302-7535 Office robin...@sce.com<mailto:robin...@sce.com> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
