I remember this too. I just tried a VARY dasdunit,OFFLINE on z/OS 1.12 and it immediately went off line, with the message being issued.
We had a started task called DEALLOC S DEALLOC it looked like: //DEALLOC EXEC PGM=IEFBR14 All it did was cause a step start, which went through ALLOCATION, which is what seemed to drive the message. On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 8:41 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht <[email protected]> wrote: > Paul Gilmartin wrote: > >>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?) > > Geez, your memory is better than my decaying memory! Can you e-mail some > [unused?] braincells to me? ;-D > > I only see [seldom] those MOUNT and UNLOAD commands, but it is gazillion > years ago that I see that dummy job. I have searched NOW my RACF DB, procs, > etc. Nothing there... > > Question: what was the PGM and parms used in that dummy job? > > Just curious of course! > > Groete / Greetings > Elardus Engelbrecht > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
