Re: I missed another memo

[Bruce Hoffman <bruce.hoffman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

call it what you will... suspended animation? I been doing PTFs on the 
hosting and let me tell you... this is fantastic. Not having to take all 
the hosted partitions down and not having to recover them after the 
hosting IPLs for the fourth time today! I need to change my shorts! <lol>

I know that it don't work this way on Power 6 with 6.1.

On 05/17/2011 06:34 PM, DrFranken wrote:
> Wellllllllll it didn't truly Hibernate the partitions they actually just
> stood frozen until their disks came back!!  This has been around for a
> while. I've had customers lose power to towers or turn off power to disk
> units and the O/S simply sits there until the disks return and then off
> it goes!
>
> Definitely a GOOD thing!
>
>       - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis
>
>
> On 5/17/2011 5:53 PM, Bruce Hoffman wrote:
> > I skipped a step this afternoon while IPLing a hosting partition...
> > forgot to take down the hosted partition...
> >
> > A6xx0255 at the HMC on the hosted partition... what?
> >
> > Holy reincarnation, Batman! When the hosting partition comes up, the
> > hosted partition is right where I left it... my 5250 session didn't even
> > disconnect.
> >
> > Didn't believe my eyes! I IPL'd it again... same result! Hibernation!
> >
> > When did that happen?