>>> On 6/10/2009 at 3:15 PM, Robert J McCarthy <[email protected]> >>> wrote: -snip- > We did not have vmpoff=LOGOFF in the parm lines. The linux guests were > in a vm DSC status. We were not logged into any of them. I did notice > however that the guests were all logged off of vm once the vm > termination message was received.
Let's dig a little deeper here. 0. vmpoff is totally unrelated to the problem you're experiencing. As others have noted, Linux loads a specific PSW when it's done processing the shutdown signal. z/VM doesn't care if the guest is then logged off or not. (See previous list discussions on why you might want to do it anyway.) 1. How are your Oracle instances started and stopped? A script? Written by whom? 2. Have you spooled your guest's console so that you can see what happens when the shutdown signal is received? 3. Have you tried spooling your guest's console _and_ turning on script tracing for whatever does shut down Oracle? (set -x for /bin/sh and /bin/bash) Mark Post
