PSW restart (system restart function from the HMC) indeed still lives on and works brilliantly. Just did one last week - for fun and practice. Still results in a SVC002 abend code. Then read the dump with VMDUMPTL after DUMPLOAD processing.
David >-----Original Message----- >From: The IBM z/VM Operating System on behalf of George Haddad >Sent: Wed 11/15/2006 4:01 PM >To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU >Subject: Re: [IBMVM] IPL Strangeness > >If it does re-occur, maybe you can do a PSW-restart to get a dump >(assuming that's still an option in the newer VMs)