Re: Re: quit files

"Joe Monk [email protected] [hercules-390]" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.emulators.hercules390.general
Message-ID <CAPcd4G-uH+cdbaCVAvH3o8ba=M7TsvxAtzBdMm_aVa2yoHJjyQ@mail.gmail.com>
" I tried "/s shutdown" 3 times, and all 3 times it
produced a clean log file."

Thats not how to shutdown TK4-.

F BSPPILOT,SHUTNOW is the correct way to do it, followed by $P JES2, Z EOD,
QUIESCE, then quit hercules. Thats the *ONLY* way to guarantee the DASD
will be flushed by MVS.

Joe

On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 3:27 PM kerravon86-/[email protected] [hercules-390] <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> ---In [email protected], <winkelmann@...> wrote :
>
> >> So I run startmvs2 and wait for the scripts to
> >> complete, and then type "quit". The first time
> >> I did this with the untouched TK4- it actually
> >> worked, ie all the verbiage was displayed on
> >> the screen and the log, like this:
>
> > As I said: If used as designed, there is no race
> > condition. However, I don't consider entering
> > quit after IPL completion being "use as designed".
>
> I think Hercules should be deterministic and
> close its files, including the log file, cleanly
> on response to "quit", as it *randomly* does
> correctly already.
>
> > How about shutting down MVS first, using the
> > TK4- automated shutdown process?
>
> I tried "/s shutdown" 3 times, and all 3 times it
> produced a clean log file.
>
> > This thing is there for a reason...
>
> And there's a reason why I use "quit" instead
> of "/s shutdown". I want sub-second termination,
> not a one-minute termination.
>
> It has been working fine on a modified tk3upd
> for many years. I suspect the extra devices
> added to TK4 are causing the issue. What I
> first noticed was data that I had populated
> was not sticking, until I added a pause
> before the quit. It's not a clean log file I want
> so much as the DASD to be flushed before
> program exit.
>
> BTW, there are delays on IPLing TK4-, like
> this:
>
> 05:03:43 HHC01603I hao cmd script scripts/SCR00010A
> 05:03:43 HHC00077I The command was placed at index 3
> 05:03:47 HHC00008I /d t
> 05:03:47 HHC02264I Script 1: file scripts/ipl.rc processing ended
> 05:03:47 IEE136I TIME=20.03.47 DATE=19.172
> 05:04:10 +BSPPILOT - Running script STARTSTD
> 05:04:10 +BSPRS22I - Dataset processed: SYS1.PARMLIB
>
> You can see a 23 second delay there.
>
> I changed IEAIPS00 in my modified tk3upd to avoid
> a similar problem, as outlined here:
>
>
> https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/hercules-os380/conversations/messages/11700
>
> BFN. Paul.
> 
>
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