While you are at it, make it self-healing, including the updating of the source 
code. Or at least include a Medical Tricorder with each system.:-)

> We recognize that CP must be more forgiving and we are 
> working to that 
> end, examining a variety of solutions that include inertial 
> dampening, 
> tritanium plating, Kevlar(R), stacks of phone books, as well 
> as taking the 
> gun away from you and beating you over the head with it (aka "the 
> retaliatory baseball bat subroutine").
 
You may need dedicated DUMP packs in order to be able to do this. CP may have 
outgrown the size of the dump space and cannot allocate a larger space as a 
result of the problem. 

> The bottom line is that none of us want the system to go out 
> to lunch. 
> That doesn't serve anyone's purposes.  If it happens, get a 
> restart dump 
> and let us know.  Sometimes it's *not* your fault.  Really!  :-)
> 
> Alan Altmark
> z/VM Development
> IBM Endicott
> 

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