Update on the console saga. Of the three sysplexed SDM (XRC) systems on the CEC in question, one is easily expendable. So I ran IEARELCN on the skinny stepchild to remove 10 offending PINNED consoles. It was pointed out afterwards by a colleague that in a sysplex, removing a console affects all members, so the 10 consoles were now gone from the whole sysplex. Not what I intended, but not a catastrophe. So I forged ahead with IODF ACTIVATE on the expendable system. Then I IPLed it to cement the notion of 'expendable'.
At that point all consoles were usable on the IPLed system. After ACTIVATE SOFT on the other members, the consoles are visible but are usable only on the IPLed system. For example, an SMCS console (not affected) looks like this: NAME TYPE STATUS DEFINED MATCHED xxxx SMCS INACT *ALL *ALL while a redefined MCS console looks like this: NAME TYPE STATUS DEFINED MATCHED xxxx MCS INACT S2 S2 S2 is the IPLed system. At R13, we have to IPL the other systems to get the redefined consoles to work. Now I can get back to R21. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile [email protected] From: Skip Robinson <[email protected]> To: [email protected], Date: 02/21/2014 07:39 AM Subject: Re: RES: Console status after IEARELCN Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> As for the message, during IODF ACTIVATE (including TEST), you get this message: REASON=0151,CAN NOT DELETE DEVICE xxxx DESCTEXT=DEVICE PINNED, ASID = 0001 DEVICE IN USE AS A CONSOLE COMPID=SC1CK While combing the web yesterday, I came across APAR OA33088 (2010) which introduced this message for ACTIVATE TEST. Before that, you would get the bad news only on actual ACTIVATE. Forewarned is just as frustrated. ;-) . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile [email protected] From: Elardus Engelbrecht <[email protected]> To: [email protected], Date: 02/21/2014 06:14 AM Subject: Re: RES: Console status after IEARELCN Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> Peter Fatzinger wrote: > I also don't know of any system command that will show you that a console device is pinned. Note that any device you've specified in CONSOLxx as a console will be pinned. Just curious, [1] how do you know in the first place a console device is 'pinned'? Thanks in advance. Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
