Because. Regards, Richard Schuh
> -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marcy Cortes > Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 9:39 AM > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Interface control checks > > Twice in the last 4 weeks, we've had a problem on a random > CHPID (bad GBIC or something like that), that generated > hundreds (thousands) of: > HCPERP602I DASD DE3E AN INTERFACE CONTROL CHECK OCCURRED > HCPERP6303I SENSE = INVALID > HCPERP6304I IRB = 04C24017 7F6803B8 00020000 0080E580 > HCPERP6305I USERID = HIDRO > HCPERP2216I CHANNEL PATH ID = 38 > HCPERP2220I PHYSICAL CHANNEL PATH ID = 0322 > HCPERP602I DASD DC78 AN INTERFACE CONTROL CHECK OCCURRED > HCPERP6303I SENSE = INVALID > HCPERP6304I IRB = 04C24017 33D20BF0 00020000 0080E580 > HCPERP6305I USERID = HIDRO > HCPERP2216I CHANNEL PATH ID = 38 > HCPERP2220I PHYSICAL CHANNEL PATH ID = 0322 > > Of course, it seems to like to happen at 3am (not surprising > looking at who USERID = ) resulting in operations calls to > sleepy systems programmers who have to get up and vary off the chipd. > > Question: Why doesn't VM just take that path offline all by > itself when there are 7 other functional paths to these devices? > > > > Marcy Cortes > > "This message may contain confidential and/or privileged > information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to > receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, > disclose, or take any action based on this message or any > information herein. If you have received this message in > error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail > and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation." >