>the operator didn't wait for the shutdown to finish before doing the IPL. Then one would use SHUTDOWN REIPL
Note too that CP writes shutdown progress messages to its consoles; on the HMC you can find them under Operating System Messages 2008/3/30, O'Brien, Dennis L <Dennis.L.O'[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > We've occasionally had to FORCE start a system after a planned shutdown, > and we can't find any reason why the shutdown wouldn't have completed > successfully. We're thinking maybe the operator didn't wait for the > shutdown to finish before doing the IPL. We recently changed from 3174 > console controllers to OSA-ICC. I've noticed that when the shutdown is > complete, we no longer see the completion message on the emulator > session. Instead, we see a banner like this: > > ** OSC Index 3 connected to OSC0180 via IP Addr > xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:1024 ** > ** LT Index=2 CSSID= 0 MIFID= 7 CU=0 UA=0 LUName=Lxxxx180 > ** > ** Type=2094-S54 Mfg=IBM SN=0000000xxxxx CHPID=66 Status=Active > ** > > I'm wondering if this banner appears BEFORE the shutdown has finished. > Does it? If it does, I suppose I'll have to tell the operators to check > for a PSW wait state on the HMC before they IPL. > > Dennis > > "A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill." -- > Robert A. Heinlein > > > -- Kris Buelens, IBM Belgium, VM customer support
