OPBCP999E - ( OPIICAPI ) hwilist CPCs failed - rc=fff won't restart

Products

• OPS/MVS Event Management & Automation

Issue/Introduction

During the recycle of OPSS,  the P OPSBCPII commands was issued by OPSS, and accepted. 

After the OPSS restarted, a new OPSBCPII was started up, while the older one is still there, which causing two instances existed there. 

One day later, we try to cancel one of them ,while both were shutdown.  And we issued /F OPSS, RESTART(HWS) to try to start it up, but received below error messages, and the task is ended.

Environment

Release : 13.5

Component : OPS/MVS BCPII INTERFACE

Cause

The OPSLOG shows that a dump was produced for an abend in the IBM code. 

27SEP 09:07:55 HWI008I BCPII FAILED TO CONNECT TO THE LOCAL CENTRAL PROCESSOR  
27SEP 09:07:55 COMPLEX (CPC). RC = 00000FFF, RSN = 00000000. BCPII INITIALIZATI
27SEP 09:07:55 IS HALTED.                                                      
27SEP 09:07:55 IEA794I SVC DUMP HAS CAPTURED:                                  
27SEP 09:07:55 DUMPID=013 REQUESTED BY JOB (HWIBCPII)                          
27SEP 09:07:55 DUMP TITLE=COMPON=HWI,COMPID=SCHWI,ISSUER=HWIRMREC,MODULE=HWICM 
27SEP 09:07:55 OPBCP999E - ( OPIICAPI ) hwilist CPCs failed - rc=fff           
27SEP 09:07:55            CON+2262,ABEND=S0042,REASON=02180027                 
27SEP 09:07:55 OPBCP999E - (OPIIDRV ) BuildTopology failed - terminating

Resolution

IBM s0042 Abend in HWILIST caused the HWIBCPII to not restart.  Recycling the HWIBCPII should resolve for OPSBCPII.   

Recommend following up with IBM regarding the ABEND=S0042 in the HWILIST.