Re: EXPLANATION ABOUT VALIDATE WHEN DOING A DS QD

2016-12-08 Thread Bill Woodger
For clarification, my comments were largely pasted from the docs :-) As I read it, the information, whatever it is, from the hardware is "definitive", and for the appropriate VALIDATE some Control Block(s) will be updated. There may not be a devil in the detail, but there may be some complex de

Re: EXPLANATION ABOUT VALIDATE WHEN DOING A DS QD

2016-12-08 Thread John Dawes
Thanks Elardus. I will check around with our MVS gurus to see if I can remove the command. On Thu, 8/12/16, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: Subject: Re: EXPLANATION ABOUT VALIDATE WHEN DOING A DS QD To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Received: Thursday, 8

Re: EXPLANATION ABOUT VALIDATE WHEN DOING A DS QD

2016-12-08 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
John Dawes wrote: >Thanks Elardus. You're most welcome! ;-) First thing first - perhaps you should remove that command from the batch job you discovered. >What does "Host view is consistent with subsystem view of control unit and >device function status.' I am unable to understand IBM sp

Re: EXPLANATION ABOUT VALIDATE WHEN DOING A DS QD

2016-12-08 Thread John Dawes
6, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: Subject: Re: EXPLANATION ABOUT VALIDATE WHEN DOING A DS QD To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Received: Thursday, 8 December, 2016, 9:23 AM John Dawes wrote: >There is no information posted in the job however this is what I found in the SYSLOG: >DS QD,4470

Re: EXPLANATION ABOUT VALIDATE WHEN DOING A DS QD

2016-12-08 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
John Dawes wrote: >There is no information posted in the job however this is what I found in the >SYSLOG: >DS QD,4470,VALIDATE UNIT VOLSER SCUTYPE DEVTYPE CYL SSID SCU-SERIAL DEV-SERIAL EFC >04070 DTB064 2107900 2107900 3339 4040 XX75-67054 XX75-67054 *OK > 1 DEVICE(S) M

Re: EXPLANATION ABOUT VALIDATE WHEN DOING A DS QD

2016-12-08 Thread John Dawes
SELECTION CRITERIA 0 DEVICE(S) FAILED EXTENDED FUNCTION CHECKING On Wed, 7/12/16, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: Subject: Re: EXPLANATION ABOUT VALIDATE WHEN DOING A DS QD To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: EXPLANATION ABOUT VALIDATE WHEN DOING A DS QD

2016-12-08 Thread John Dawes
suspicions. On Wed, 7/12/16, Bill Woodger wrote: Subject: Re: EXPLANATION ABOUT VALIDATE WHEN DOING A DS QD To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Received: Wednesday, 7 December, 2016, 1:45 PM "In addition, there is one action parameter, VAL

Re: EXPLANATION ABOUT VALIDATE WHEN DOING A DS QD

2016-12-08 Thread John Dawes
12/16, Lizette Koehler wrote: Subject: Re: EXPLANATION ABOUT VALIDATE WHEN DOING A DS QD To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Received: Wednesday, 7 December, 2016, 1:50 PM So, what is it you are working on? What error messages? What IO issue? Any HCD or IO Gen issues? Device not coming onli

Re: EXPLANATION ABOUT VALIDATE WHEN DOING A DS QD

2016-12-07 Thread Lizette Koehler
details the better the advice. ;-D Lizette > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of John Dawes > Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2016 8:59 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: EXPLANATION ABOUT V

Re: EXPLANATION ABOUT VALIDATE WHEN DOING A DS QD

2016-12-07 Thread Bill Woodger
"In addition, there is one action parameter, VALIDATE" says the documentation. That, coupled with "VALIDATE has no effect if the unit address has no physical device attached" is a pretty strong indication that there is an actual effect from VALIDATE. "Use the dump selection parameters, to defin

Re: EXPLANATION ABOUT VALIDATE WHEN DOING A DS QD

2016-12-07 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
John Dawes wrote: >Could someone clear up what the command DS QD,413Z,VALIDATE actually do? The >doc says the following: >VALIDATE : Uses status information acquired directly from a device to correct >inconsistent extended function status information maintained in host processor >storage. VAL

EXPLANATION ABOUT VALIDATE WHEN DOING A DS QD

2016-12-07 Thread John Dawes
G'Day, Could someone clear up what the command DS QD,413Z,VALIDATE actually do? The doc says the following: VALIDATE : Uses status information acquired directly from a device to correct inconsistent extended function status information maintained in host processor storage. VALIDATE has no eff