Or the hardware. Certain machine checks while masked will force a check-stop.
On Sun, 24 Dec 2023 12:58:06 -0600 Jon Perryman <[email protected]> wrote: :>Hi Tom, :>I think Peter misinterpreted your question because you provided too much information. :>> Peter Relson wrote: :>> I'm now thinking you just meant that you were surprised that the recovery routine did not complete successfully. :>I think you are asking the academic question if there is a time when RTM is disabled or inactive. Or if you can encounter a situation where RTM is disabled or inactive. Maybe you can form your question in terms of RTM behavior that you want to understand. :>To clarify LPAR DISABLED WAIT state, I believe it's part of RTM. While it's a drastic form of recovery, the LPAR should never be left running random instructions. My point was that I believe that RTM always provides some sort of recovery even if the recovery is not actual recovery. -- Binyamin Dissen <[email protected]> http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
