Specifying a Force Start

When the system is reloaded, CP again prompts you for the type of start you want to perform. If a warm start fails and you are authorized by the system support personnel, enter:

force

This response causes CP to perform a force start. After the force start completes, much of the system's environment may be the same as it was before you shut down the system with the SHUTDOWN command. But, CP may have lost some data, as explained before.

Also, if CP encounters an error during the force start, it may not automatically start your unit record devices or enable your displays. If you need any of these devices, you must explicitly start or enable them. (To find out how to start or enable a device, see Controlling Local Devices.)

If you are performing a force start and encounter spooling errors, CP advises you of these errors after the preliminary phase of spooling initialization is complete. A message is displayed that gives you the spool file summary status. CP then issues a prompt similar to the following:

Spool file errors encountered during initialization.
No files have been deleted yet.
To continue restart and delete the files, enter GO.
To stop so you can check spool volumes, enter STOP.

You must now decide whether to continue system initialization (losing the indicated files) or to stop system initialization (without losing any files).

To continue system initialization, enter:

go

To stop system initialization, enter:

stop