It was z/VM 7.2 (still in support) but the APAR states that the problem affects all z/VM releases.
> On 24 Oct 2023, at 18:33, Art Zeigler <[email protected]> wrote: > > What relase of z/VM did you receive the Wait 006? > > Thanks > > Art Zeigler > > ________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of > Keith Gooding <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2023 1:27 PM > To: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: Heads up: z/os 3.1 WAIT 006 under z/VM + DS6800 question > > For my first z/OS 3.1 IPL (under z/VM) I got WAIT 006. After a long search I > found z/VM APAR VM66721: Z/OS GUEST IPLS FAIL AFTER APPLYING UJ92591/UJ92728. > There is no PTF as yet but there is a work-around (turn off mini-disk > caching). > > Those PTFa are the validated boot PTFs for z/OS 2.5 - the function is > incorporated into z/os 3.1. > > I have no idea why the failure occurs but I thought maybe z/os is using some > I/o command sequence which z/Vm does not support properly. That got me > worrying about whether z/OS 3.1 (or 2.5 with the validated boot PTFs) will > work on old hardware, specifically DS6800 which we have at a backup site. Our > 3.1 test under z/Vm used DS8884. > > Has anyone tried running 3.1 (or 2.5 with the validated boot PTFs), or have > any understanding of why an IPL may fail on DS6800 ?. We are not using > validated boot and have no intention of doing so. > > Keith > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
