John McKown wrote: >The path is only needed while the SSCH is active (i.e. actual I/O is being >done). During this time, z/OS will not take the path offline. It will mark the >path as pending offline and not use it for future I/O. Once the I/O is >complete, it will actually take the path offline. So, you should not need to >worry. z/OS is a bit smarter than some of the other systems out their (*cough* >Windows *cough*).
Yup. About windoze, try removing your USB stick while something is writing on it. Safety of contents on that stick is NOT guaranteed. Or do a CD/DVD eject while doing a pirate copy of something... BTDT. ;-D To the OP (Victor): I would like to add to what John kindly wrote, that if the I/O is completed, another LPAR may or may not pick up it [again] for more I/O work. I would suggest something like that: RO *ALL,<whatever command> and then wait for all remaining I/O to finish. You all need to check ALL the channels to a device are OFF on all LPARS and Sysplexes connected to it.... Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
