Personally I use Netview's CANZLOG functionally post-ipl to review syslog, filtering on descriptor codes that I find interesting. Adding this to your PROGxx member allows Netview to view messages that were issued prior to the subsystem being initialized, including NIP messages.
EXIT ADD EXITNAME(CNZ_MSGTOSYSLOG) MODNAME(DSI4LCUI) Mark Jacobs Sent from ProtonMail, Swiss-based encrypted email. GPG Public Key - https://api.protonmail.ch/pks/lookup?op=get&[email protected] ------- Original Message ------- On Thursday, March 16th, 2023 at 8:31 PM, Mark Zelden <[email protected]> wrote: > I know there are lots of critical errors that can happen during NIP so I > don't know > exactly where to draw the line, but it would be great if the OS could flag > things like > this (missing LNKLST library, missing LPA library or MLPA, missing SVCs) and > then > reflect the error in a health check post IPL. Normal console automation could > catch > that easily and warn someone and it could be fixed and the system re-IPLed at > the time. > > Personally, for planned IPLs I always check NIP on at least on one system in > a sysplex > if multiple systems are being IPLed (parms / sysres are shared anyway). > > Regards, > > Mark > -- > Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS > ITIL v3 Foundation Certified > mailto:[email protected] > Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html > > > On Thu, 16 Mar 2023 17:20:36 -0500, Steve Horein [email protected] wrote: > > > Do you have any kind of automation package available to you? > > > > On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 8:11 AM Richard McIntosh < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Is there anyway to get alerted to a linklist error duing the IPL process. > > > The error messages come out to early for any MPF processing to hilite it > > > and they rolled by to quick for operations to notice and caused TLMS to > > > not > > > get initialized. Dataset is not in master catalog and the wrong volser was > > > specified. > > > > > > IGGN307I SYSP01,SYSR.TLMS.R14MA.CTAPLINK,DATA SET NOT FOUND ON > > > VOLUME > > > > > > IEA716I UNABLE TO OPEN LIBRARY - LNKLST DATA SET IGNORED > > > > > > SYSR.TLMS.R14MA.CTAPLINK > > > > > > I googled an old (18 years ago) message about someone using the IEAVMXIT > > > exit to check some storage to see if any error flags were set, but there > > > was no mention of what storage it was. > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > Richard McIntosh > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
