I assume you have been here...

http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/IEA2M9C0/SPTM013374

Btw z/os 1.6 isn't really supported unless you have special support 
contact..hardware would have to be looked at, what goes logrec show ?

Scott ford
www.identityforge.com

On Jul 16, 2012, at 10:52 AM, peter novack <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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 very 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...
> 
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