zVM crash update

2011-06-15 Thread Burton, Randy
should lead IBM and us to fixing the loop and thus stopping it from happening again. Best theory so far is that zVM tried to restart following the MCW002 abend, couldn't find a console, thus the 1010 disabled wait. Thanks for all the suggestions! -Original Message- From: Burton,

zVM crash

2011-06-14 Thread Burton, Randy
I'm curious if this error rings a bell with any of you. We of course have an ETR open and are working with IBM. No hardware errors on the HMC, so we believe this was software and not hardware. Here's the last operator log message before the LPAR went into a disabled wait: HCPMPG9152E PROCESSOR

Re: Teddy Bears

2009-06-10 Thread Burton, Randy
It's far worse than we think. Try a Google search of "evil teddy bears". 1,230,000 hits. Yikes. Now try "good teddy bears". 23,600,000 hits. That makes me feel so much better. At least when it comes to teddy bears, good triumphs over evil at a ratio of about 19:1. >From Wikipedia: The tedd

Old address cleanup

2009-06-09 Thread Burton, Randy
This is really strange. I left Wachovia in December, and turned on the autoreply on my mailbox. Wachovia should have deleted the mailbox and the email address, sometime after I left. I probably did forget to delete my Wachovia email address from this listserv, but I would have thought it would h