II02105: ENABLED WAIT AT IPL ON A D/T4381, NO-CONSOLES CONDITION, MSGIEA420A ISSUED BUT NOT SEEN, or MSGIEE129I MSGIEE870I

APAR status

• Closed as canceled.

Error description

• ENABLED WAIT AT IPL TIME. NIP MESSAGES HAVE FINISHED WRITING TO
  THE MASTER CONSOLE AND THE NEXT MESSAGE OUT SHOULD BE PROCESSED
  BY COMTASK. THE ALARM SHOULD HAVE RUNG THREE TIMES INDICATING
  THAT A NO-CONSOLES CONDITION EXISTS. MSGIEA420A IS SEEN IN THE
  WQE BUFFERS IN A STANDALONE DUMP TAKEN AT THE TIME OF THE WAIT.
  THE MASTER CONSOLE IS A D/T3205 ON A D/T4381 CPU.
  *** Additional symptoms - MSGIEE129I or MSGIEE870I IOER
  IO ERROR after IPL when trying to vary on a console attached
  to the D/T4381 Preprocessor port.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

Problem conclusion

Temporary fix

Comments

• THIS APAR WAS CREATED TO DOCUMENT PROBLEMS THAT RESULT
  IN A NO WORK WAIT, ENABLED WAIT ( 070E0000 00000000 ), DUMMY
  WAIT, AT IPL TIME.
  SUCH A WAIT AT IPL TIME USUALLY INDICATES THAT A NO-CONSOLES
  CONDITION EXISTS. WHEN THIS HAPPENS, THE ALARM WILL SOUND THREE
  TIMES. ALSO, MSGIEA420A WILL BE ISSUED TO INDICATE THE REASON
  FOR THE NO-CONSOLES CONDITION. IF A PRINTER CONSOLE IS ACTIVE,
  THIS MESSAGE WILL APPEAR THERE. OTHERWISE, THE MESSAGE WILL BE
  SEEN IN THE MASTER TRACE TABLE OR ON THE WQE CHAIN. THIS
  CONDITION CAN BE RECOVERABLE BY FOLLOWING THE PROCEEDURES ON THE
  MSGIEA420A OR IN THE SYSTEM COMMANDS MANUAL.
  THE MOST COMMON REASON FOR THE NO-CONSOLES CONDITION TO ARISE AT
  IPL TIME IS AN IOER. CHECK THE FOLLOWING:
  1. ON A D/T43XX CPU, CONSOLE DEVICES PLUGGED INTO THE
     PREPROCESSOR PORTS MUST BE GENNED AS A D/T3278-2A OR A
     D/T3279-2C.
  2. CONSOLE DEVICES PLUGGED INTO THE PREPROCESSOR PORTS CAN NOT
     HAVE THE PTREAD (PREPARE TO READ) FEATURE SPECIFIED ON THE
     IODEVICES MACRO. THIS WILL RESULT IN AN IOER ON A X'4B'
     OPCODE WHICH THE MICRO CODE IN THE PORTS DOES NOT UNDERSTAND.
  *** Additionally, after IPL a console switch for an IOER can
  result when trying to vary on a console that is attached to the
  preprocessor port.  The CONSOLxx parmlib member must specify
  these console devices as UNIT 3278-2A or 3279-2C.  They can not
  be specified as 3270-X.  Error message IEE129I will result on
  an MVS/ESA V3 system and IEE870I will result on an MVS/ESA V4
  system (HBB4410, HBB4420, JBB4422).
  

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Fix information

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