On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 1:33 PM, John Norgauer <jcnorga...@ucdavis.edu>
wrote:

> Lizette
>
> When the D/R system was up I issued
>
> D OMVS,F
> BPXO042I 07.54.06 DISPLAY OMVS 546
> OMVS     000F ETC/INIT WAIT      OMVS=(00,21)
>
> And that's all that came back.
>

​First, I assume no replies are outstanding.​


And a light glimmers a bit. The OMVS system, which is actually the BPXOINIT
started task, is waiting for something. The first thing that comes to my
mind is a mistake in the file: /etc/rc . This file is a "normal" UNIX shell
script. It is "sourced" (run in-line, like a COPY) by the initialization
process. So everything that it does must complete before the OMVS
initialization will complete. What sometimes happens is that someone will
make a mistake when trying to use it to initialize UNIX processes at IPL
time. The mistake is running something, which does not "daemonize" itself ,
without a trailing "&" to tell the shell to "start this in the background
and continue". This might be something like INETD or HTTPD or ??? .

If you have a local TSO terminal (needed because TCPIP won't start without
OMVS initialized), you might want see if a PS (ProcesS) display works. If
it does, you _might_ be able to see what is holding up the initialization
process. No guarantees, of course.

Naturally, if you have only the unmodified IBM supplied /etc/rc file, this
isn't the problem. In this latter case, you will likely need to do a z/OS
console DUMP command to dump the BPXOINIT address space:

DUMP COMM=(BPXOINIT STUCK)
.. wait for WTOR and then reply (change number)
R nn,'JOBNAME=BPXOINIT'

And then use IPCS to look at the dump.


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