Re: History Log Problems

["Jeffrey M. Carey" <jeffreycarey@xxxxxxx>]

This happened to us too, except it caused a few more problems!  Our
development system was set to 8/23/28 after a IBM hardware update. 
Unfortunately, our CE didn't change it.  So the system came up as
8/23/28 and we only noticed because every user with a password
expiration interval other than *NOMAX had expired passwords!  After all,
they hadn't changed them in 31 years!  Note that this happened even
though we hadn't applied any PTF's - so the "inital system date" of
8/23/28 is the same even after the Y2K PTF's - when they updated to make
28 = 2028, they apparently didn't change the date of 0 = 08/23/28.  

We still have the QHST log out there - if you do a DSPLOG these entries
show up at the END of the log - they are in the future!  

Even if your CE immediately changes this date, there will be at least
one QHST out there - the very first IPL will create one.  You can look
in QSYS for a file like QHST28236A and delete it - that's the future
log.  Definitely do so before 8/23/2028!  

Neil Palmer wrote:
> 
> OK - here's a W.A.G.
> At some point in time you had service done on your system (maybe the control
> panel was replaced) and the first IPL defaulted to the 08/23/28 default date.
> This was noticed and corrected.  You keep your QHST logs for a while, and
> have since applied the V3R6 PTF's for Year 2000 support.  Now the system
> thinks this log file is for 2028 instead of 1928, and therefore never deletes
> it when cleanup is run.
> Or maybe not.    :-)
> 
> On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Gary Feinstein wrote:
> 
> > This morning I took a look at my history log and there were some strange
> > items at the end.  Its showing an attended IPL in the list with a time
> > stamp of 08/23/28.  Thats pretty weird if you ask me.  System date is
> > correct so where did this item come from?  Defective PTF I guess.
> > Anyone run into a problem like this?  Everything else looks fine on the
> > system although, the log entries are not even being written anymore.  It
> > just shows the mysterious IPL (it didn't really happen) and then stops.
> > By the way, I am on V3R6 and have c7140360 installed.  Any thoughts?
> >
> > Gary Feinstein
> > AS/400 System Administrator
> > Planet Hollywood International Inc.
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