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... > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
