What happens if you box a device offline? Can you bring it back online?
Rob Schramm On Tue, Jan 29, 2019, 2:19 AM Mehrshad Manshadi < [email protected] wrote: > In response to a D U,,ALLOC command, msgIEE106I is issued > indicating a jobname of *UNKNOWN for certain DASD units. It is > also not possible to Vary the unit(s) offline (unable to vary). > This problem was traced to an OEM product changing the UCB > in a job's TIOT without incrementing the new UCB's UCBUSER > (Number of Current Users use-count) field. When the new UCB > was subsequently de-allocated, MVS Allocation code decremented > UCBUSER, causing it to become negative. Since UCBUSER was then > not zero, the device appeared to be allocated even though there > was no address space known to be allocated to it. As a result, > UCBALOC was never turned off and the device could not be > varied OFFLINE. > > See Scratch Pad for OEM information. > Please help me to solve the problem. from where i can find scratch pad for > OEM? in OS configuration or hardware?!How can I turned off UCBALOC ? > For your information we changed the number of aliases in IODF and just > activate it without IPL or power on reset the machine. > Thanks > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
