To address one of your concerns. The message is for information, not an error. There are advantages to BCPii support, but your hardware does not support it. Reformatting the couple data set will lead to a different informational message that you can't do anything about.
OTOH I recommend reformatting now in case the tooth fairly brings you an upgrade. Reformatting now will save you having to do it later when you've forgotten about it. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile [email protected] From: Mainframe Mainframe <[email protected]> To: [email protected], Date: 06/19/2014 07:18 AM Subject: Re: SYSPLEX COUPLE DATA SET NOT FORMATTED FOR THE PROTOCOL Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> Thanks. So, atleast this error will go away. On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 6:39 PM, Dennis Trojak <[email protected] > wrote: > No worry. Matter of fact you can reformat your couple dataset(s) with the > SSTATDET and then the IXC104I error message will change to "REASON: NOT > SUPPORTED BY HARDWARE" which is what I get on my z9BC. > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Mainframe Mainframe > Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2014 2:43 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: SYSPLEX COUPLE DATA SET NOT FORMATTED FOR THE PROTOCOL > > I checked in google and found that this feature is available only on z10 > and later, but we are running system with z9EC currently . does this still > applicable to us. > > > > On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Mainframe Mainframe < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > We have z/OS 1.13 system in sysplex and now I am adding z/OS 2.1 to > > be part of this. > > So, I have used currently defined couple datasets. But I can see below > > message in syslog. > > > > IXC104I SYSTEM STATUS DETECTION PARTITIONING PROTOCOL ELIGIBILITY: 685 > > SYSTEM CANNOT TARGET OTHER SYSTEMS. > > REASON: SYSPLEX COUPLE DATA SET NOT FORMATTED FOR THE PROTOCOL > > SYSTEM IS NOT ELIGIBLE TO BE TARGETED BY OTHER SYSTEMS. > > REASON: SYSPLEX COUPLE DATA SET NOT FORMATTED FOR THE PROTOCOL > > > > > > When I looked at IXC104I message it says > > > > > > SYSPLEX COUPLE DATA SET NOT FORMATTED TO SUPPORT PROTOCOL Format > > primary and alternate sysplex couple data sets by specifying the > > following parameters in the input to the IXCL1DSU format utility: > > > > ITEM NAME(SSTATDET) NUMBER(1) > > > > Bring the new couple data sets into service with the appropriate > > sequence of SETXCF COUPLE commands. > > > > > > > > Not much information has been provided on this. I dont find reason to > > do this. Is it really a showstopper for adding z/OS 2.1 with z/OS 1.13 > > sysplex. > > > > Anybody faced this issue before. Any alternate way to come out from > > this issue. > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email > to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
