I am attempting to IPL our test system - which is being upgraded to z/OS 1.7 (Prod is at 1.4) - I know 1.7 won't last long before it has to be upgraded again.
I have just taken over this system from a colleague who has done most of the SeverPac install - and now passed it on to me. Soon after IPL we get the message: *01 IOS120D I/O TIMED OUT FOR DEVICE 044D. REPLY 'WAIT' FOR I/O COMPLETION OR 'CONT' TO CONTINUE WITH DEVICE OFFLINE As the manual indicates, if we reply 'WAIT', the message reappears, and replying 'CONT' puts the volume offline. After reply 'CONT' I can start JES2, and then doing a 'D A,L' reveals that LLA, VLF, DLF, JES2 and RACF are all running - I have remove automatic starts of other tasks - and taken away the DD Commands for the DUMP datasets, and removed SMS from IEFSSNxx - but they make no difference. After that tasks will not start properly - when attempting to start IRRDPTAB, TCPIP etc, they go into 'STARTING' mode. This volume should not be needed on our system - it is the 'Catalog' volume on our 'prod' system containing Master Catalog, page datasets, RACF dataset, MANx datasets, IODF, ACDS, COMMDS, Checkpoint. Not a happy collection together - but it is a relatively small system. There are no references to this volume in out test catalog, nor any other references I can find such as PROGxx. The ServerPac is dated September 2006 - and I think it unlikely that any extra maintenance has been applied. The previous guy did successfully IPL, but he hasn't taken any intermediate backups. Can you suggest why this volume is being accessed. Or some way out of this problem - is it maybe a hardware problem ? Nigel Wolfendale ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
