On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 07:30:48 -0600, 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*). > I understand VSE used to work that way. Did it get better? Are we talking about possibly the only path? What if the device is allocated?
Remember the Bad Old Days when the operator needed to submit a dummy job to make a device actually go offline? (Or does it still work that way?) It's been a long time since I've seen DEVICE <irrelevant> IS NOW OFFLINE in my job log, or even on my OMVS terminal, where I recall once having seen one. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
