IASP Forced Vary-Off following failure in the DASD Subsystem

With IBM® i 7.6, the client can specify the quantity of minutes the IBM i performs error-recovery on Disk Subsystems before forcing an Independent ASP (IASP) to Vary-off.

Currently, the error-recovery on Disk Subsystems in an IASP is performed for 20 minutes before the IASP is automatically Varied-off.

An Advanced Analysis macro interface is now available to change that 20-minute default value. The timeout can be set for any value between 20 minutes and 65,000 minutes.

Changing the timeout value does not affect the error-recovery on Disk Subsystems in the Traditional ASPs.

The timeout value will persist through IPLs and through a Slip-Install of SLIC.

The format for the macro to set the timeout value for IASPs is:

      SETIASPTIMEOUT -SET N

Where N represents the quantity of minutes

The format for the macro to display the current timeout value for IASPs is:

      IASPTIMEOUT