On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 02:03:18 -0500, Barbara Nitz <[email protected]> wrote:
>You're NOT supposed to get any message to which you have to reply DOWN! > >The correct way to shut down a system in a sysplex is to ALWAYS ALWAYS >use vary xcf,sysname,offline. Then reply with the name of that system again. >(This is true for monoplexes, also!) > >Remember that the IXC402D (reply down when mvs has been system reset) is >an ERROR condition message. <snip> If you don't have an active SFM policy (which I don't know why any shop would not create one) you will get this message and it does not indicate an error. I haven't consulted full time for 7 years now, but back when I did, I was at several shops running sysplexes that had no SFM policy. Now at least there is a health check to prod shops into creating one if they haven't. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[email protected] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
