To the main question, would there be a problem with starting BCPii at any time, I would say no problem. In our early experience with sysplex, we restarted BCPii any number of times before we got it right. If the task is missing something it needs, it will tell you so. You will need some HMC updates, also dynamic.
The best feature of BCPii is AUTOIPL. While running z/OS 1.12, we had one development system that mysteriously IPLed itself. Turns out it was running clean out of real storage, usually in the middle of the night when no one was logged on, so no one complained. AUTOIPL detected the wait state and IPLed the failing LPAR. I don't think it's ever happened in production, but it satisfies *long* standing advice to reIPL a dead system ASAP. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Roger Lowe Sent: Friday, October 9, 2020 11:57 AM To: [email protected] Subject: (External):Re: BCPII services CAUTION EXTERNAL EMAIL On Fri, 9 Oct 2020 10:56:49 -0500, Bonnie Barthel <[email protected]> wrote: >I just noticed that we have not been running the HWIBCPII task. It looks like >it was never configured. I went back a year ago so this is nothing new. It >does appear that System Automation is able to use the services without the >task: > >ING815I BCPII CONNECT FROM A09NO/AUTHW002 TO CPC F5/./IBM390PS.F5 >RETURNED: SUCCESS > >but XCF is not: > >SYSTEM STATUS DETECTION PARTITIONING PROTOCOL ELIGIBILITY: SYSTEM CANNOT >TARGET OTHER SYSTEMS. > >I am preparing to configure it to start running and have done some simple >testing on our sandbox but I wonder if there are any known risks in starting >up the HWIBCPII task. OK to run on GDPS K-lpars? > The HWIBCPII task would usually be started at IPL time but you can also issue the "S HWISTART" command to start/restart it. There is a very good presentation from Steve Warren "BCPii for Dummies: Start to Finish - Installation, Setup and Usage". Do a Google search for it. There are some setup tasks to be done on the HMC, RACF (or whatever ESM you use) definitions. If you want to make use of things such as Capacity Provisioning Manager (CPM), AutoIPL etc, then BCPii needs to be in place. Roger ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
