Mark and Skip:
I can assure you that QUIESCE will stop the XCF heartbeat. I have used
it often in training to demonstrate the loss of heartbeat and triggering
the sysplex to respond to the loss of a member. With an active SFM
policy, it will trigger your desired action.
The advantage to using QUIESCE is that you can back out and reactivate
the system with PSW restart if SFM is not active or you can beat it to
the punch and will not lose the member.
Mike Myers
Senior z/OS Systems Programmer and Instructor
Mentor Services Corporation
Goldsboro, NC
(919) 341-5210
On 06/06/2016 07:44 PM, Mark Jacobs - Listserv wrote:
Since Quiesce will put the system in a restartable wait state, I'd
think that the XCF heartbeat would stop too.
Mark Jacobs
Jesse 1 Robinson <mailto:[email protected]>
June 6, 2016 at 7:32 PM
I'd like to test my Sysplex Failure Management policy. The question
is how to make a system stop responding long enough to trigger
expulsion from the sysplex. I'm thinking of issuing QUIESCE on a
member. Have not used that in decades. Will it cause lack of XCF
heartbeat? I can just try it unless someone has a better suggestion.
The last time this happened for reals was when a system ran clean out
of SQA on account of a bad dog product. That's pretty hard to
recreate. All I want is to go through the pain and agony of
partitioning to test message handling and auto SAD.
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J.O.Skip Robinson
Southern California Edison Company
Electric Dragon Team Paddler
SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager
323-715-0595 Mobile
626-302-7535 Office
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