On Wednesday, 08/09/2006 at 11:02 MST, "Schuh, Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe on VM it has, but I have found that a clean shutdown of RSCS goes a long > way toward preventing operational headaches when trying to reconnect to z/OS or > MVS systems. Before I created a SHUTDOWN EXEC that tells RSCS to SHUTDOWN > QUICK, many of our MVS systems would have to drain the link and restart it. > Sometimes, there were time dependencies - a link would have to be drained on > both the MVS system and on VM; then the start order needed to be VM first, JES > next. Following the SHUTDOWN QUICK, we have only one problem link and it is > consistent. It does start after about 15 minutes.
I'm not sure that you're aren't describing a bug somewhere, but is it technical problem that you say can be reasonably avoided by orderly shutdown. So I'd say: write up an RSCS requirement to support signal shutdown. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott