There are companies out there that sell and service used mainframes. If you can't get the part replaced, then a used mainframe could be purchased. With a new minimum z114 starting at $75,000, z9 or z10 should be a bit cheaper.
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 1:42 PM, peter novack <[email protected]> wrote: > OK, here's the story so far: > We've tried IPLing a few times, and later performed a power-on-reset, but > still got the message a few hours later. > Unfortunately, they do not have official IBM support (assuming they would > even support such old machines), and I don't think that's about to change, > given the ongoing migration to open systems. > I still can't find anything interesting in the logs and I am running out of > ideas. > The only thing we could think about that might be related is a power failure > we suffered a day before the message appeared for the first time. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: peter novack > Sent: 07/16/12 06:21 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Urgent help needed - Message ISN000E > > Hi all, I work as a consultant in a small installation in Eastern Europe. > Their main business activity runs on a couple of Z900 machines (z/OS 1.6). > One is for production and the other for development. Like many organizations, > they've been trying to get rid of the Mainframe for years now, so far with > very little progress... A few hours ago, we got a very strange message on the > development machine: "ISN000E The service processor has failed. Some critical > system functions are inoperative. An orderly shutdown of the entire system > should be planned in order to minimize the possible impact of this failure." > I thought I might be able to find something that might explain this in the > syslog, but it showed nothing out of the ordinary. We tried IPLing but got > the error message again. After a short (and rather panicked) discussion with > the operations manager, and considering the documented instruction to shut > down the system, we've decided to take down all LPARs. Naturally, they are ve > ry disturbed about this message, and the required system shutdown that > followed. Any thoughts on what might be causing this? My client and I would > highly appreciate any hints/tips on the root cause of this... > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For > IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to > [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
