DASD Service Informational Messages (SIMs)

This report relates to hardware or media failures that may require the customer to call for service or run ICKDSF.

SIMs always appear ahead of other informational messages.

The DASD informational messages report appears after all SIMs.

Refer to the device maintenance library for information about the SIMs and actions required.

Figure 1 shows an example of the DASD service informational messages.

Figure 1. DASD Service Information Messages (SIMS)

DASD SERVICE INFORMATION MESSAGES (SIMS)            REPORT DATE 028 97
                                                    PERIOD FROM 023 97
                                                           TO   028 97

  1                      2                          3 
COUNT           FIRST OCCURRENCE           LAST OCCURRENCE
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 1   023/97 00:10:05:00         023/90  00:10:05:00
   * SERVICE ALERT  9345-1 ␠ S/N 0113-N6968 REFCODE D100-11C1-9000 ID=05
   * DASD EXCEPTION ON SSIS 1123, PHYSICAL DEVICE 02, VOLSER SUTUXX
     DEVICE ADDRESS= 0B02, 11
   * REPAIR WILL DISABLE STORAGE CLUSTER 1 AND INTERFACE A-B

 1   023/97 00:10:06:00         023/90  00:10:06:00
   * MODERATE ALERT 9345-1 ␠ S/N 0113-P1337 REFCODE D800-22D2-0000 ID=06
   * DASD SERVICE OPERATION COMPLETED ON SSID 2123
   * REPAIR WILL DISABLE STORAGE CLUSTER 0 AND SERIAL INTERFACES 00-01

 1   023/97 00:10:07:00         023/90  00:10:07:00
   * SERIOUS ALERT  9345-1 ␠ S/N 0113-P5706 REFCODE E300-33E3-1000 ID=07
   * DASD EXCEPTION ON SSID 3123 DEVICE PATH 3
  ** INVALID SERVICE CODE 3 FOR SENSE BYTE 28 = AE
  ** S/N 0113-P5706  NO FORMATTED MESSAGE - SENSE DATA:
     00001200 2428CF07 93808333 E3100004 23603D5A 3123E300 05100200 AE020700

 1   028/97 00:00:32:03         223/90  00:00:32:03
   * SERIOUS ALERT  9343-C02 S/N 0113-T0003 REFCODE 2300-251D-9000 ID=17
   * SCU EXCEPTION ON SSID 3123, STORAGE CLUSTER 1 DEVICE PATH 2
   * NO SERVICE ACTION REQUIRED

 1   028/97 00:00:01:00         123/90  00:00:01:00
   * SERVICE ALERT  9345-1 ␠ S/N 0113-Y1989 REFCODE 4121-1634-5678 ID=21
   * MEDIA EXCEPTION ON SSID 0127, VOLSER SUTEFG DEVICE ADDRESS= 0B00, CH  1F
      PHYSICAL DEVICE 00, CYLINDER 01B1 HEAD 01
   * REFERENCE MEDIA MAINTENANCE PROCEDURE 1

1: The number of occurrences of this particular SIM based on the SEQNUM and SIM ID.
2: The date and time of the first occurrence of this particular SIM.
3: The date and time of the last occurrence of this particular SIM.