We upgraded to level 67L last weekend and I noticed while IPLing one of my
sandbox LPARs that the code finally distinguishes between an LPAR that
is running and one that is stopped.
You used to get a warning message that said something like "The LPAR
is active. JOBs will be canceled". (don't know the exact msg... gone now)
This always made me cancel out one more time and make sure I was
really IPLing the LPAR I intended to that had been shut down. This is
despite that we keep all the ICONs locked except our sandbox LPARs.
(yes, someone IPLed a production LPAR 6 or 7 years ago which led
to locking all but our sandbox LPARs).
Now here is what I see:
"Load may cause information in memory for the target to be lost, since
the target is in a stopped or disabled wait state.
Do you want to continue with this task?"
The new "active" warning message is this:
"Load will cause operations to be disrupted, since the target is
currently in use and operating normally.
Do you want to continue with this task?"
I always wondered why the HMC wasn't smarter. It's about time. Of course
if the warning panel itself contained the image name, I would have never
had to double check either. Unfortunately, it still doesn't do that.
Mark
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