I agree with John McKown on trying just an IPL to see if it works. I suspect this probably won't work.
Did you POR the machine after you re-installed the last time? If not, then you might have a problem in how your IODF is defined. Maybe the IODF was built with a new configuration but specified NO in "Switch IOCDS for next POR". Maybe the original IOCDS is not sufficient to support the IPL. There is something seriously wrong when a zSystem = Windoze. A full restore should never be required because of a power failure. Critically damaging 1 volume is conceivable but is extremely unlikely. Critically damaging 2 volumes seems inconceivable. Losing every logical volume is seems impossible. If the business partner suggested you start from scratch, then they should be shot before trying to recover. "ACTZ0182 Activation Complete Load Not Processed" - I'm not sure what this truly means but it must be occurring early in the IPL process. I seems to imply that the IPL volume is not available or is not IPL'able. If your DS6800 has enough space, then allocate some new volumes and install the z/VM starter system on new volumes and let it update the IOCDS. IPL (not POR) the original system and see if the IOCDS is sufficient. If so, then go into HCD and save to the IOCDS. If IPL works, then do a POR to see if it's working correctly. If the original volume was not IPL'able, then maybe the IPL data got damaged. You could try updating the IPL data on the RES volume from the starter system. If in the worst case, you should still be able to re-use existing volumes. Hardware support told you the DS6800 is fine. Instead of purging and reconfigure, you should be able to retain the current volumes. If you have access to the existing user definitions, then you should be able to retain existing user volumes. Jon Perryman On Wednesday, May 7, 2014 1:15 PM, Karl Severson <[email protected]> wrote: Yup, sev1. Resolution last time was to reconfigure the DS6800 and reinstall everything. The customer contacted an IBM business partner to do this. By the time the dust settled and I restored all of the user accounts a couple of more weeks had come and gone. I hope I don't have to go through this again. At least this time we have the DDR backups of the OS and applications so all I'll be stuck with is the user accounts and data. Still a big task. > >Karl > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
