Elardus, There is no information posted in the job however this is what I found in the SYSLOG:
DS QD,4470,VALIDATE UNIT VOLSER SCUTYPE DEVTYPE CYL SSID SCU-SERIAL DEV-SERIAL EFC 04070 DTB064 2107900 2107900 3339 4040 XX75-67054 XX75-67054 *OK **** 1 DEVICE(S) MET THE SELECTION CRITERIA **** 0 DEVICE(S) FAILED EXTENDED FUNCTION CHECKING -------------------------------------------- On Wed, 7/12/16, Elardus Engelbrecht <elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za> wrote: Subject: Re: EXPLANATION ABOUT VALIDATE WHEN DOING A DS QD To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Received: Wednesday, 7 December, 2016, 12:27 PM John Dawes wrote: >Could someone clear up what the command DS QD,413Z,VALIDATE actually do? The doc says the following: >VALIDATE : Uses status information acquired directly from a device to correct inconsistent extended function status information maintained in host processor storage. VALIDATE has no effect if the unit address has no physical device attached >I am not sure what "to correct inconsistent extended function.." does. Is it safe to use? Could you please help me understand IBM's explanation because it is not clear. Since it is a 'DISPLAY' command, it is indeed safe to issue the command. What are you seeing in the console/syslog? It depends of course what is shown, then it should be obvious what next you should be doing. Just post the result if you can. If you can and device is shared, repeat the display from another LPAR, just to be sure. About IBM's explanation, I'm sorry, but I can't help without specific results of your display command. Oh, IBM's docs can sometimes be really that hard to read... ;-) Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
