I would do a stand alone dump when you get the wait state - only for the nip log.
If you have access to the HMC you might be able to see the NIP log there. If so, see what got the 878 abend. Lizette -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of SrinivasG Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2013 7:38 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: I am getting a wait state during IPL Hi , I am IPLing ZOS 1.10. This is an Old LPAR. Added additional VTAM LUs today. That's all. I have made CSA=(3M,366M) and SQA=(3M,100M) . I have given 20GB to this LPAR. Still the same issue. Regards, Srinivas G -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Staller, Allan Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2013 7:57 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: I am getting a wait state during IPL 00878040 X0CCCWWW Wait state code 040 Abend 878 Most likely insufficient CSA/ECSA or SQA/ESQA provided. See INIT and TUNING Guide for member IEASYS00, parameters CSA and SQA for details. HTH, <snip> >From the Waitstate Codes manual: 040 Explanation: The system abended a task during nucleus initialization program (NIP) processing. The right-most four bytes of the program status word (PSW) have the following format: x0cccwww where: x Irrelevant information. ccc A hexadecimal abend code indicating the reason for the failure. www The wait state code. During IPL , I am getting a wait state. PSW is 00020000800000000000000000878040 . </snip> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
