Never mind.. found my issue. Was following some instructions and wanted me to set the storage for VSMWORK1 to 128M. Setting this back to 64M got things working again.
From: Karl Kingston <karlkings...@ongov.net> To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Date: 11/29/2010 09:21 AM Subject: VSMWORK1 abends?? Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System <IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU> Hi Folks. I'm trying to set up xCAT to manage my linux servers. Not sure what I'm missing but it seems that VSMWORK1 abends. Here's the last few lines of a console log. sapi_rc = 2288 DVHSAPI Contents *SMSG VSMWORK1 DVHXMT1191I REQUEST=12 RTN=DVHXMT MSG=1191 FMT=01 SUBS= NAMESAVE *SMSG DIRMAINT DVHREQ2287E REQUEST=12 RTN=DVHREQ MSG=2287 FMT=01 SUBS= VSMWORK1 ONONVM03 VSMWORK3 * *SMSG DIRMAINT DVHAPI1198E REQUEST=12 RTN=DVHAPI MSG=1198 FMT=01 SUBS= DVHREQ228 8I EXIT DMSSIXDM - Dirmaint Exit Routine Format_rx: Arg() = 2 rc = 100 rs = 12 data = || DMSITP143T Operation exception occurred at 80000002 in system routine دa æþ; re-IPL CMS 11:57:37 * MSG FROM VSMWORK1: DMSCIT171T Permanent console error; re-IPL CMS HCPMFS057I VSMWORK1 not receiving; disconnected HCPGIR450W CP entered; disabled wait PSW 000A0000 80F1856C Any idea what's going on? Did I misconfigure something? If so, where? Thanks