Why even bother shutting it down? We do the following as one of that last few things, before doing the V XCF command.
F bpxoinit,shutdown=forks F bpxoinit,shutdown=filesys And call it good. _________________________________________________________________ Dave Jousma Assistant Vice President, Manager, Mainframe Engineering [email protected] 1830 East Paris, Grand Rapids, MI 49546 MD RSCB2H p 616.653.8429 f 616.653.2717 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Conley Sent: Friday, May 06, 2016 9:18 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: OMVS hang at system shutdown On 5/6/2016 8:47 AM, Styles, Andy , SD EP zPlatform wrote: > On Fri 06/05/2016 at 13:14, Tom Conley wrote: > >>> *BPXI056E OMVS SHUTDOWN REQUEST HAS COMPLETED SUCCESSFULLY >>> >>> (why is that an 'E' level message?) >>> >> >> "E" here is not "ERROR", it's "Eventual Action", which is the "F >> OMVS,RESTART" command. > > Ah! Of course - I'd forgotten IBM use the same suffix to mean different > things. I do find it odd, though, that this is considered that way - there's > plenty of other address spaces that you might consider "eventual action" - > RACF (or any other ESM) for example.. > > Thanks, > Once upon a time (apparently pre-z/OS V1R3) OMVS was not restartable, so they probably added the message as an E message to let the operator know that it was restartable. Regards, Tom Conley ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN This e-mail transmission contains information that is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended only for the addressee(s) named above. If you receive this e-mail in error, please do not read, copy or disseminate it in any manner. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information is prohibited. Please reply to the message immediately by informing the sender that the message was misdirected. After replying, please erase it from your computer system. Your assistance in correcting this error is appreciated. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
