Short-term console outages

There are planned and unplanned outages for SE and HMC consoles. From an SA z/OS® perspective, there is no difference between an outage due to a console device error or an access path or network failure that affects the console connection.

For short-term outages, SA z/OS has implemented console polling and monitoring functions, which both can be configured in the SA z/OS processor policy to automatically re-establish a broken or failing console connection.

Standard console connection polling and monitoring

With ProcOps, connection polling can detect consecutive connection restarts that fail and internally prolong the time between the restarts to ten minutes in case a smaller connection polling pace was defined in the SA z/OS PDB.

For SA-BCPii (INTERNAL) connections that are NOT managed by GDPS, the Connection Monitor Interval in the Processor Information policy is used to schedule an SA z/OS internal monitor routine.

For SA-BCPii (INTERNAL) connections that are managed by GDPS, they are exclusively monitored by GDPS. Connection monitoring in SA z/OS is not needed. Therefore, specify the Connection Monitor Interval in the Processor Information policy to NONE to deactivate connection monitoring in SA z/OS.