Should any care, the problem turned out to be "weird" (to me). I was told that the SSA adapter to the internal disk (3494-B10 uses a some sort of pSeries w/AIX) was bad. Unfortunately, this type of error is not reported at all to the z system as anything that we could determine. I guess that this is the cost of the internals being a "closed black box".
-- Wasn't there something about a PASCAL programmer knowing the value of everything and the Wirth of nothing? Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN