It still works, but some applications react poorly to a suspension of time. We've done this to our sandboxes when production needed the cycles.
Dave Gibney [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Programmer (509) 335-7359 Information Technology Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-1222 > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Terry BRuns > Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 10:17 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: QUIESCE / RESTART > > Does anyone have recent experience with performing a QUIESCE, followed by > a PSW Restart? Can this be done on a box running in LPAR mode without > affecting the other images, is quiesce merely a relic of the past? > > The reason I ask is because we had a "surprise" Quiesce performed on our > main production lpar last week. One of the DBA's was running some DB2 > QUIESCE TABLESPACE in batch. She was also converting her JCL from using > SYSIN DD * to SYSIN DD DATA,DLM='##'. She inadvertantly commented out her > control cards...or so she thought! She only had a "// " in front of her > QUIESCE TABLESPACE. Little did she know that our JES2 parms allow MVS > commands of this format to be issued. The rest, as they say, is history! > > We IPL'd the system immediately, but later on I read that a quiesced > system > can be brought back via a PSW Restart. Can anyone comment on this? Thanks! > > Terry Bruns > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
