On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:45:58 -0400, Jim Mulder 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>...
>  The data collection for IPLDATA STATUS was just a little thing
>I hacked together in OS/390 1.3 to help me find a starting point of
>where to look when I got asked to help diagnose "why did that IPL
>take so long?" problems.  

This is not the first time, and I'm sure won't be the last time that 
"a little thing ... hacked together" by a tester has proved to be
a life saver.  None of our MVS system programmers knew about 
this command.  We don't know when our intermittant IPL problem
will strike again, but you can bet this command will be issued 
afterwrds.

> ... It presents things in four phases
>IPL-NIP-IEEVIPL-IEEMB860 because that happens to be how the
>system initialization code is structured.  But I was not trying
>to create any 'official' terminolgy.  ...

Too late.  You labled them - it's officail now.  :-)

Pat O'Keefe

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