In message <[log in to unmask]>, Brent Moore 
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>I was trying to add a new device to sysgen then use the doionow
>command which hung.
>
>Now I have this session that is hung and can't abort it. I have tried
>ABORTJOB, ABORTPROC and the kill command and still the session is
>there.
>
>This session has IOCONFIG.PUB.SYS open and no new sessions can
>logon. People that are logged on are ok and if you have a session and
>are at the colon prompt you can logon on to a different account, just no
>new seesion. You can't get the attention of the system when trying to
>logon new.
>
>Anyone with an ideas other than bringing the system down and back up,
>I have 117 uses currently logged on that I would have to kick off.

Try ABORTIO from a different terminal, for the device running the 
session.

Then maybe ABORTJOB again.

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