On Wednesday, 03/11/2009 at 12:02 EDT, Tom Duerbusch <duerbus...@stlouiscity.com> wrote:
> We have an IBM DS6800. It uses some form of Unix/Linux for its controller > code. About every 2.5 years, the controller area fills up and locks us out. > It still processes I/Os just fine, but the DS6800 console can't access it. And > no one is notified. No heartbeat goes out to IBM. It doesn't notify support > about hardware errors. We just run until, I guess, it eventually stops > running. I stumbled on it this pass Monday as we have a power outage scheduled > for this weekend and we have to shut down. We are current on our DS6800 > hardware code. If the powers at IBM can't figure this one out with thousands > of identical systems, there is little hope for the rest of us with tens of > thousands of unique systems <G>. OK rant off You have piqued my interest, but I can't find a PMR (PMH). Please send me the # (offline). Thanks. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
