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rlwood · Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2020 8:47 am Post subject: IMS Restart Failure

Our IMS started task was not shut down correctly with an IPL. Fortunately, this is on our TEST LPAR, but I am NOT an IMS System Programmer (he retired) and now we are getting the following error:

DFS0618A A RESTART OF A NON-ABNORMALLY TERMINATED SYSTEM MUST SPECIFY EMERGENCY BACKUP OR OVERRIDE

We have NO IMSDB - just IMSDC, so i wanted to just get past this and get my IMS instance up. So I replied like this:

R 27,/ERE OVERRIDE

And i got this:

31 DFS972A *IMS (DCCTL) AWAITING MORE INPUT*

Manual on DFS972A is sparse on what I need to enter and is saying i need to enter a SEGMENT. Not sure what to reply. Sad

What did I do wrong? And is there any suggestion on how to get past this issue?

Thanks!

rlwood · Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2020 11:49 am Post subject: Error Resolved

After struggling with this for a while, I found the issue was basically a simple period was missing! For this particular command, it requires a '.' at the end:

/ERE OVERRIDE.

DUH...

We are up and running now. Smile

kolusu · Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2020 5:30 pm Post subject:

rlwood,

Thanks for posting the solution. Sometimes the obvious solution is right in front of our eyes. Glad you are able to fix it.
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