Re: Fw: IXC102A automated by SFM ?

2006-04-27 Thread Bill Neiman
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 07:53:35 -0700, Walter Marguccio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill, I believe what you states, unfortunately I didn't understood that reading the book. Yes, Barbara is correct about isolating a system from the plex, but my point was another one. If you have a basic plex and you

Re: Fw: IXC102A automated by SFM ?

2006-04-24 Thread Bill Neiman
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 15:41:20 -0700, Skip Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To shut down, we VARY XCF OFF. The HMC beeps and turns red. We move on. No system reset. Bruce Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject Re: Fw: IXC102A automated by SFM ? What do you do to shutdown? The red icons indicate

Re: Fw: IXC102A automated by SFM ?

2006-04-24 Thread Walter Marguccio
- Original Message From: Bill Neiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Walter, When the documentation speaks about automating IXC102A, what it really means is that the system will not issue IXC102A at all, with SFM set up appropriately in a parallel sysplex. Barbara is correct - in a parallel

Re: Fw: IXC102A automated by SFM ?

2006-04-24 Thread Jim Mulder
IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 04/21/2006 09:37:14 PM: To shut down, we VARY XCF OFF. The HMC beeps and turns red. We move on. No system reset. The VARY XCF OFF puts the system in a wait state, thus the red icon. But it does not do a system reset.

Re: Fw: IXC102A automated by SFM ?

2006-04-24 Thread Mark Zelden
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 15:33:04 -0700, Skip Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Without mining thru previous posts--I thought the dangling issue was the last system down, where SFM no longer has the power to initiate a cleanup. Isn't that the case where system reset is proposed as necessary? Also

Re: Fw: IXC102A automated by SFM ?

2006-04-24 Thread Edward Jaffe
Jim Mulder wrote: APAR OY36587 on SP4.1.0 (around 1991) added support for a System Control Program Initiated Reset. When MVS loads a disabled wait state (for example, the 0A2 wait state which results from VARY XCF OFF), MVS issues a Diagnose instruction to initiate the reset and load the

Re: Fw: IXC102A automated by SFM ?

2006-04-21 Thread Walter Marguccio
- Original Message From: Barbara Nitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU System reset is done automagically in a parallel sysplex (note the parallel - the CF needs to be there) for all systems except the last one when an SFM policy is active. No special automation is needed

Re: Fw: IXC102A automated by SFM ?

2006-04-21 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 04/21/2006 at 07:50 AM, Barbara Nitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: System reset needs to be done to get rid of possibly hung RESERVES that were/are not cleared when the system is wait stated (or so I was told). Correct. If you're not going to IPL for a while then you need

Re: Fw: IXC102A automated by SFM ?

2006-04-21 Thread Bill Neiman
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 01:01:08 -0700, Walter Marguccio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, IXC102A message is very clear about when to reply DOWN. I think I read somewhere else (SHARE or IBMMAIN) that DOWN must be replied only *after* the system has been reset. What I am seeing is that delaying the

Re: Fw: IXC102A automated by SFM ?

2006-04-21 Thread Skip Robinson
to IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU To IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU cc Subject Re: Fw: IXC102A automated by SFM ? On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 01:01:08 -0700, Walter Marguccio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, IXC102A message is very clear about when to reply DOWN. I think I read somewhere

Re: Fw: IXC102A automated by SFM ?

2006-04-21 Thread Mark Zelden
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 13:23:56 -0700, Skip Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I understand this explanation, system reset is a definitive manual action that guarantees the 'down-ness' of a system. Like the hunter 'making sure' his buddy is really dead. But a total lack of vital signs, like the

Re: Fw: IXC102A automated by SFM ?

2006-04-21 Thread Skip Robinson
@BAMA.UA.EDU 04/21/2006 01:59 PM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU To IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU cc Subject Re: Fw: IXC102A automated by SFM ? On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 13:23:56 -0700, Skip Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I understand this explanation, system

Re: Fw: IXC102A automated by SFM ?

2006-04-21 Thread Skip Robinson
@BAMA.UA.EDU cc Subject Re: Fw: IXC102A automated by SFM ? As I understand this explanation, system reset is a definitive manual action that guarantees the 'down-ness' of a system. Like the hunter 'making sure' his buddy is really dead. But a total lack of vital signs, like the TV-familiar

Re: Fw: IXC102A automated by SFM ?

2006-04-21 Thread Bruce Black
To shut down, we VARY XCF OFF. The HMC beeps and turns red. We move on. No system reset. The VARY XCF OFF puts the system in a wait state, thus the red icon. But it does not do a system reset. Obviously you can get away without it, but I recommend it -- Bruce Black Senior Software

Fw: IXC102A automated by SFM ?

2006-04-20 Thread Walter Marguccio
Sorry guys, my reply had obviously nothing to do with PDSE and LNKLST ... wrong subject. Walter Marguccio - Original Message From: Cox, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] Works quite well here where we get JES2 down ( we forget about Z EOD here - I was shocked that they did not do it here, but

Re: Fw: IXC102A automated by SFM ?

2006-04-20 Thread Skip Robinson
by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU 04/20/2006 01:06 AM Please respond to Walter Marguccio [EMAIL PROTECTED] To IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU cc Subject Fw: IXC102A automated by SFM ? Sorry guys, my reply had obviously nothing to do with PDSE and LNKLST ... wrong subject. Walter

Re: Fw: IXC102A automated by SFM ?

2006-04-20 Thread Bruce Hewson
Hello Skip, A System Reset Normal will get the processor to close all channels for that lpar. Some years back I had a discussion here about StandAlone dump process, and this was discussed then Regards Bruce Hewson -- For

Re: Fw: IXC102A automated by SFM ?

2006-04-20 Thread Barbara Nitz
I've never understood why a wait-stated system needs to be system reset. I can't see any harm in a system reset, but really, does anyone know why it's done? If so, we need to retrain all our operators. ;-) System reset needs to be done to get rid of possibly hung RESERVES that were/are not