"taltyman" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>. .. > Here is what happened. This client is on 2 z9's with multiple lpars. > We were doing a maintenance IPL to 2 sysplexed lpars. One on each > z9. Brought system 1 down, got the normal WTOR on the other lpar > (system 2) requesting a reply when system 1 was reset. The operator > then entered the reset clear for system 1 and we waited, and waited > and waited. After about 10 minutes we canceled the reset request and > tried again. Same results. Canceled that request and tried a > deactivate, again in a hung state. However this time we were unable > to cancel the deactivate request. Eventually the operators HMC could > only 'see' the HMC itself. No CPUs > So now we open up the z9s to access the real service elements. The > primary on cpu1 is also in a hung state. No amount of keyboard > combinations can free it up. The SE on CPU2 is also in a hosed up > state. While another sysprog works with the SE on CPU1 I pop off the > glued down piece of plastic over the power button on the laptop and > power off/on that laptop. It restarts and comes back up, proudly > stating that it is the alternate se. Better than we were but still > not right. Now I open the bottom laptop and notice it is doa, no > lights except the lan connections blinking, so I do the same thing and > it comes up and now both SEs say they are the alternates. So I power > off the top one again and finally it comes back as the primary. Now > the oper hmc has visibility to CPU2 and its images. So meanwhile on > CPU1 no amount of pushing the power button on the top laptop does > anything so we trace back the power cable and unplug the power supply > to the laptop and it finally goes dead (I guess the battery is no > bueno) and plug it back in. Meanwhile the alternate se laptop can > only see itself and not CPU1. After the top laptop comes back it > becomes the primary se and now the oper hmc can see both CPUs and we > can finally do a reset clear and finish IPLing both systems. But all > this took over an hour. > > After that long story I have a couple of questions. If a primary > service laptop becomes disabled or hosed up, why don't the alternates > work? What's the point of alternates if the are unusable? Anyone > else seen this issue. Of course these z9s are off support so no use > asking IBM.
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