On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 12:37:24 -0600, Nigel Wolfendale wrote: > >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.
Are you sure? Then you must have at least a PUBLIC volume. > >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. Why do you have it online for your test system? I think you need to make some adjustments to the IODF to ensure that only the correct volumes are online at IPL time -- and that you have all the volumes that you need. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

