Coupling Facility Structure Rebuild failure with TPX

Products

• TPX - Session Management
• Vman Session Management for z/OS

Issue/Introduction

How does TPX handle a coupling Facility structure failure. Does TPX support Coupling Facility Structure Rebuild?

Environment

TPX® Session Management for z/OS
Vman Session Management for z/OS

Resolution

TPX supports rebuilding and altering of the TPX Coupling Facility (CF) structure by the operating system. End users will see messages indicating that sign on or sign off is not possible during recovery.

If TPX attempts to connect to a CF structure during rebuild, a message will be issue to the console and TPX will wait 30 seconds before attempting to connect again.