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Status Not under consideration
Workspace z/TPF Product Family
Categories z/TPF
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 31, 2018

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Enhance the looping catastrophic monitor

The looping catastrophic monitor aborts restart after recovery log processing in restart. This is before tape restart and IPC restart. Although it's likely that a looping catastrophic is the same dump, aborting before tape restarts means the last dump may not have been written to the tape yet from the DBA. It also makes swapping out tapes to post process the dumps more operationally unusual (ZTOFF vs ZTPSW). Aborting before IPC restart may cause unnecessary issues for LC systems.

If possible, looping catastrophic detection should alllow tape restart and, for LC systems, IPC restart to complete before aborting restart. Clearly if the looping catastrophic occurs before then, this is not possible and restart must be aborted as early as it is now.

For non LC customers, forcing dumps in looping catastrophic situations to write to tape instead of the DBA might also ensure that if the catastrophic was not the same dump each time, that the last dump was written out to tape before restart is aborted. This doesn't solve any problems for LC customers though.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Feb 2, 2022

    Based on the results of the TPFUG ballot, priorities and resources, IBM does not intend to implement this in the foreseeable future.

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