One of the areas in the SAD is the NIP console. You can see all of the NIP messages - similar to syslog - that occur at IPL time. These messages have been very helpful whenever I have had a problem during IPL and I did not have the HMC handy.
Lizette > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Vernooij, CP - SPLXM > Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 12:14 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: z/OS IPL Issue > > IBM is able to read them. They might request the SA dump if you report the problem > and you will be glad you took it. > > Kees. > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 08:06 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: z/OS IPL Issue > > > This kind of error rarely gets mentioned on IBM-MAIN because SAD of > > early IPL failure is super fast and IPCS takes only seconds to init > > such a dump. The problems are usually fixed immediately and folks move > > > on to more challenging issues. > > I agree completely. But if there isn't someone forceful around that insists on taking > the sadump, in many installations the knowledge how to read a dump, much less an > sadump is a lost art. So sadumps don't get taken because there's nobody there who > knows how to read it. > > Barbara > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
