To shut down, we VARY XCF OFF. The HMC beeps and turns red. We move on. No system reset.
Bruce Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> 04/21/2006 03:20 PM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> To [email protected] 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 solid hum of the life monitor, serves the same > purpose. Plus the red icons on the HMC. > > We've been running sysplexes--parallel, basic, and mono--for 10 years. > Without a standard practice of system reset, have we just been lucky? What do you do to shutdown? The red icons indicate that the LPAR is not running, meaning that it is in STOP state or some sort of error state, so you must have done something. System reset is generally a good thing on a shutdown system. Among other things, it does a "selective reset" to every I/O device, which releases any RESERVES or pending conditions, resets path group definitions, and generally clears the device. -- Bruce A. Black ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
