In addition to all the other good points already made - if you skip the v xcf,offline in a parallel sysplex - IPL takes that much longer because there wasn't proper cleanup done to the CF resources. That means XES goes out and has to do policy reconciliation - making sure that the old connections (which are now in a failed state) are cleaned up at IPL. Going through a failed state cleanup is completely unnecessary.
It was admittedly a long time ago - but I had that same discussion 'skip the v xcf offline' with a customer who routinely skipped it and had definite problems with consoles and WTOs when the system came back up. That was a monoplex, too. I finally convinced him to do a 'proper shutdown', and the problems went away. For my self, I *always* issue v xcf,offline, even in a basic monoplex without a CF. When there are probolems with JES not wanting to come down for whatever reason, it most certainly terminates all by itself before the wait state is loaded. :-) Barbara ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
