Re: Abnormal system end

["Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@xxxxxxx>]

At 05:32 PM 05/16/2000 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>Would anyone have any explanation for the following ?
>On friday evening I signed on to the console and brought our sytem down to
>restricted condition to run our full backup procedure as normal. While
>looking throught the history log today I found the following messages :
>
>1. Unattended IPL in progress after abnormal system end
>2. Previous ending was abnormal because ENDJOBABN used.
>
>After further investigation I noticed the system had taken an extra 2h
>20mins to IPL on Saturday morning after the backup procedure, due to the
>abnormal end I assume.
>
>I know I did not issue the ENDJOBABN command during any of the procedure (I
>have checked the logs, splf's, etc. to confirm). Possibly it had been issued
>earlier in the week on a runaway user job, if so does using the ENDJOBABN
>command allways result in the above ?
>Does the ENDJOBABN command have any affect on the QABNORMSW system value ?

ENDJOBABN will *ALWAYS cause the termination of OS/400 to be abnormal, by 
definition.

Al




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