Kees, thank you for the reply.
> I wonder if the I/O does not time out and recovery procedures will be driven. In that case the timeouts must be extremly long (more than a couple of hours) <g>. > You could try the V xxxx,OFFLINE,FORCE to Box devices. This will terminate all outstanding I/O's with an I/O error and this should trigger some action in the applications. I've never thought of this possibility. I'll test it. > Hopefully, this storage box does not contain volumes to keep you z/OS running. No, no, no, only DB/2 and CICS <g>. Regards, Zaromil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
