I think you are referring to "ELAN". It was a PC used to do work
for automation before MVS got up far enough for Auto operator to
function, as I recall (prior to the BMC buy-out of Boole & Babbage).
And I think that would allow one to trap this kind of issue. But
it has been decades since Boole & Babbage for me.
Regardless, if one has such a tool that can get the "NIP Console"
output, I think you would be able to catch this problem.
Steve Thompson
On 3/17/2023 9:24 AM, rpinion865 wrote:
If memory serves me right, I think BMC had something in one of the auto
operations products, that was a PC/Server application that acted as a console.
With that, the PC/Server application could take action based on the console
traffic.
But, maybe I dreamed that :)
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On Friday, March 17th, 2023 at 9:21 AM, Richard McIntosh
<[email protected]> wrote:
A healthcheck would be nice. I normally do check the syslog following IPLs, but
forgot to check this lpar. Had several other lpars being IPL'd.
Richard
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Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2023 7:32 PM
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Subject: [External] : Re: linklist error at IPL
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
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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
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