SVA_AUTOIPL_DEFINED

Description:

Checks if the customer environment is capable of supporting an AutoIPL policy and if it is, determines whether the AutoIPL policy is active.

Reason for check:

IBM® suggests that you define the AutoIPL policy using the DIAGxx parmlib member to minimize z/OS® system downtime. AutoIPL can re-IPL MVS™, take a Stand Alone Dump (SADMP), or take a SADMP and have SADMP re-IPL MVS when it has finished.

AutoIPL function requires the Program-Directed IPL feature. AutoIPL is not appropriate in GDPS® environment. If the check determines that the customer does not have the hardware feature or that the AutoIPL policy is not active, the check stops running.

z/OS releases the check applies to:

z/OS V1R11

User override of IBM values:

The following shows the default keywords for the check, which you can override on either a POLICY statement in the HZSPRMxx parmlib member or on a MODIFY command. This statement may be copied and modified to override the check defaults:

UPDATE
CHECK(IBMSVA,SVA_AUTOIPL_DEFINED)
ACTIVE
SEVERITY(MED) INTERVAL(24:00) DATE('date_of_the_change')
REASON('Your reason for making the update.')

Parameters accepted:

No.

Reference:

For information about Exploiting the Automatic IPL Function, see z/OS MVS Planning: Operations.
For information about DIAGxx (Control common storage tracking and GFS trace) see z/OS MVS Initialization and Tuning Reference

Debug support:

Verbose support:

Messages:

This check issues the following exception messages:

BLWH0001E
BLWH0011E

See z/OS MVS System Messages, Vol 3 (ASB-BPX).

SECLABEL recommended for multilevel security users:

SYSLOW - see z/OS Planning for Multilevel Security and the Common Criteria for information on using SECLABELs.

Output:

The following report is generated by the SVA_AUTOIPL_DEV_VALIDATION check when the device validation fails for devices specified in the AutoIPL policy:

AutoIPL  Device     Error             
action   Address    Description                              
             
-------  ---------  -----------------------------------------------------------
SADMP    03A0       Device is not DASD
	
In the output:
AutoIPL action	= 	The AutoIPL action (SADMP or MVS).  
Device Address	= 	The address of the device failing the device validation.
Error Description	=	The description of the problem