What is running in the other LPARs when you IPL the VM LPAR? Assuming th at at least one or more of the other LPARs are running some flavor of MVS,
what jobs are running in the MVS LPARs? The reason I ask this is because we share DASD with MVS running on a separate box and if there are jobs running on MVS that put reserves on some volumes, (like defrags, backups, for example), and we try to IPL VM when those jobs are running, then the IPL can take a very long time since VM cannot read the reserved volumes a nd will eventually time out. If you do not need access to the MVS volumes i n your VM LPAR, then exclude them in your system config file. You might al so be able to schedule your VM IPL at a time when MVS is 'idle', (like that ever happens! :-)> ). Dale R. Smith Technology Services Senior IBM Global Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1-614-481-1608
