I'm with you...
It seems like operators are often told that D A,L should come back with
nothing before V XCF. Of course we want to get tasks with databases
shutdown nicely (CICS, DB2, etc.), and files closed (bpxoinit shutdown)
and checkpoint records written ($PJES2 or even $PJES2,TERM) but why
worry about things that work just fine even if they die abruptly? For
example, I once saw operators waste a lot of time trying to stop LLA...
Umm, just push the button.
I hope nobody shows them the D A,ALL command or the system will never be
shut down.
Jousma, David wrote:
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.
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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
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