>Excellent post. I might add that on operational systems that are smallish >(<10G each LPAR) I have *NEVER* been able to get the storage to >successfully go offline (testing on zSeries hardware). >Even on my sandpit - IPL, config it on, do some displays, config it off. >Nothing. >Waited all day on one occation. Note, no users - not even TSO. >IRD not active on the CEC
Do a D M=STOR periodically while the CF STOR is in progress. It will identify the pages that it is trying to get offline. If this data changes, then progress is being made. If it remains static, it is usually identifying pages which have been fixed for a long period of time, but the PGSER FIX inappropriately specified LONG=N, or pages which are fixed by an address space which became nonswappable for a long period of time via a SYSEVENT DONTSWAP which should have been a SYSEVENT TRANSWAP. Also, some work was done in z/OS 1.5 to improve the performance of CF STOR OFFLINE processing. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
