On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 8:00 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht < [email protected]> wrote:
> David Andrews wrote: > > >Ed Gould wrote: > >> The standard issue I have with any machine oriented documentation is > that hen the system is down what good is it going to do you? *NONE* > > >Hee! A few years ago we had a total power outage in the computer room, > result of an UPS failure. The kids hadn't gone through a power-cycle in a > coon's age, and nobody over there knew how to get things back up. > > Say Again! ;-) > > This is why we do every month or so a scheduled IPL. Resolving memory > creeps, PTFs and to re-train the untrainable operators on how to do an IPL > to keep their brain cells oiled. ;-) > We also do an IPL about once a month. But we don't have any operators. And the IPL is _completely_ automated. All the sysprog needs to remember is how to logon to the HMC, if not in the computer room, and drag'n'drop the proper LPAR icon onto the proper function icon. However, all this goes down the toilet if CA-OPS/MVS doesn't come up. Which has happened when one of us removed a library from the APF list but didn't remove it from the CAS9 procedure. Then CAS9 abended with an S047. And CA-OPS/MVS didn't come up. Luckily, this was fixable from the other system. We have two and rarely have both down at the same time. The z/OS shutdown is also automated. Why? Because even with documentation, the other 2 on the team don't seem to be able to do it correctly. Taking down z/OS UNIX simply defeats them for some reason. So I get called. Usually. So, out of necesssity, I have "perfected" the CA-OPS/MVS rules needed to bring everything down gracefully. But it worries me that _nobody_ else can really shutdown or IPL "by hand" other than myself. -- Wasn't there something about a PASCAL programmer knowing the value of everything and the Wirth of nothing? Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
