No worry. Matter of fact you can reformat your couple dataset(s) with the SSTATDET and then the IXC104I error message will change to "REASON: NOT SUPPORTED BY HARDWARE" which is what I get on my z9BC.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mainframe Mainframe Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2014 2:43 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: SYSPLEX COUPLE DATA SET NOT FORMATTED FOR THE PROTOCOL I checked in google and found that this feature is available only on z10 and later, but we are running system with z9EC currently . does this still applicable to us. On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Mainframe Mainframe < [email protected]> wrote: > We have z/OS 1.13 system in sysplex and now I am adding z/OS 2.1 to > be part of this. > So, I have used currently defined couple datasets. But I can see below > message in syslog. > > IXC104I SYSTEM STATUS DETECTION PARTITIONING PROTOCOL ELIGIBILITY: 685 > SYSTEM CANNOT TARGET OTHER SYSTEMS. > REASON: SYSPLEX COUPLE DATA SET NOT FORMATTED FOR THE PROTOCOL > SYSTEM IS NOT ELIGIBLE TO BE TARGETED BY OTHER SYSTEMS. > REASON: SYSPLEX COUPLE DATA SET NOT FORMATTED FOR THE PROTOCOL > > > When I looked at IXC104I message it says > > > SYSPLEX COUPLE DATA SET NOT FORMATTED TO SUPPORT PROTOCOL Format > primary and alternate sysplex couple data sets by specifying the > following parameters in the input to the IXCL1DSU format utility: > > ITEM NAME(SSTATDET) NUMBER(1) > > Bring the new couple data sets into service with the appropriate > sequence of SETXCF COUPLE commands. > > > > Not much information has been provided on this. I dont find reason to > do this. Is it really a showstopper for adding z/OS 2.1 with z/OS 1.13 > sysplex. > > Anybody faced this issue before. Any alternate way to come out from > this issue. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
