OK, this is embarrassing. We found the problem - but don't know the culprit. We discovered the quiesce command wasn't locked down and somebody somewhere keyed it in. The reason we don't know who/where is because our SDSF-like product had the capability to also do a quiesce and since we didn't know that's what caused it, we IPLed the LPAR. I did some research after the fact to determine just how quiesce works (been working on these things for 30 years and never had a reason to even play with quiesce). Now I know - and I know how to make the machine go again, picking up where it stopped. PSW Restart from the HMC doesn't do what I consider a "restart" but a "take the brakes off and let it run". :-)
IBM hardware support found the wait state and informed us of it. Thanks everybody for the bandwidth and suggestions. Rex -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of kekronbekron Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2021 8:50 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [External] Re: z14 HMC log information Please do share when you find out! I wonder if an LPAR with full BCPii authority over the box can silently query/log information from the HMC for monitoring, i.e., actions occuring not via BCPii itself, but just accessing HMC logs. - KB ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Wednesday, March 17, 2021 6:17 PM, Carmen Vitullo <cvitu...@hughes.net> wrote: > so the only other thing I can think of is if you are in a sysplex and your > SFM policy took the system out of the plex, XCF may have not seen a heartbeat > in a long enough time it partitioned the system from the plex, I've had this > happen before, you should see some IXC messages if this happened. > when this happened to me there was no indication anyone did anything > the system was just removed from the plex > > Carmen Vitullo > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Rex rpomm...@sfgmembers.com > To: IBM-MAIN IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Date: Tuesday, 16 March 2021 4:33 PM CDT > Subject: Re: z14 HMC log information > > Nothing out of the ordinary in the HMC logs. > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU On Behalf > Of Carmen Vitullo > Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 1:10 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: [External] Re: z14 HMC log information > > so it looks like one place to check is from the HMC, /console > actions/View control tasks performed, this may get you what you need > another place is from console actions, View console events > > Carmen Vitullo > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Rex rpomm...@sfgmembers.com > To: IBM-MAIN IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Date: Tuesday, 16 March 2021 12:51 PM CDT > Subject: Re: z14 HMC log information > > I found the log - nothing in it. Heading off to IBM. > > Rex > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU On Behalf > Of Pommier, Rex > > Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 12:24 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: [External] z14 HMC log information > > Hi all, > > Probably a simple question but I'm not having any luck looking for it so I'm > asking here. > > Is there a centralized place on a z14 HMC to show activity occurring, LPAR > activation/deactivation, pretty much anything that happens on an HMC or on a > z. We just took a hit where one of our LPARs and we're not seeing anything. > No hardware messages, no dumps, no nothing. The syslog on the LPAR shows > everything running as normal then it just stopped, 15 minutes later are the > IPL starting messages. 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