And of course if you're running 2nd level you can use CMS to forward spac e the tape to the appropriate location before you IPL it. It's faster and
you won't see any IPL failure messages. Too bad CP only provides command to REWIND the tape to the load point and none to forward/backward space a tape. Brian Nielsen On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 13:12:45 -0400, Jim Bohnsack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot e: >It doesn't really matter, other than how the ipl failure message is >displayed. On bare metal, at least on our 9672 vintage machine (7060- H55), >ipling on bare metal will make the HMC screen turn red. On 2nd level, y ou >see the IPL unit failure message on the screen. Our D/R dumps are done on >MVS using ADRDSSU, so I end up ipling 5 times to get to the S/A ICKDSF a nd >then another 7 times to get to the S/A ADRDSSU program. The ipl failure s >are the VOL label, the HDR labels, I guess the EOF label. > >Jim
