Radoslaw, Try "F OMVS,SHUTDOWN" instead. It works for me...
Rex -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 12:58 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: curiousity: why CONFIG instead of VARY? McKown, John wrote: > In the deep, dark, past, I remember that we used the VARY command to > change the status of things such as storage, CPs, and channels. Now, > some things such as DEVICES are manipulated via the VARY command > whereas others, such as the CHPs, are manipulated via the CONFIG command. > Anybody have any idea why? Or how it was decided which things were > VARY'd and others CONFIG'd? I don't know exactly, but I strongly believe it was the same reason why VTAM is stopped with HALT command. <vbg> BTW: Is the HALT used elsewhere ? BTW2: One of the most awful commands I know: F BPXOINIT,SHUTDOWN=FORKINIT Couldn't it be longer, with more punctuation marks ? <g> -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
