RE: IPL from ##MACH#A

[D.BALE@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Yeah, that's just it, no _apparent_ problems.  Fortunately, this is just a
development machine, not much more than coding, compiling, testing, and
passthrough to other AS/400s.

Dan Bale
IT - AS/400
Handleman Company
248-362-4400  Ext. 4952


-------- Original Message --------
On CICS models one has to IPL from A to apply temporary LIC fixes and from B
- to do the same permanently. If at A-IPL any temporary LIC fixes are
installed, the panel indicator is immediately switched to B, but it is
actually misleading. I'm not 100% sure, but I strongly suspect that if in
these circumstances you run PWRDWNSYS IPLSRC(*PANEL), IPL will still run
from ##MACH#A. I witnessed a few situations when at a CUM package
installation the system would IPL just once effectively staying at A.
If you've been running the system with no apparent problems for 6 months,
there is no reason to add any new PTFs. You may end up having more problems
re-IPLing from B. But all this is just speculation.

Lo

> -----Original Message-----
> From: D.BALE@handleman.com [SMTP:D.BALE@handleman.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 3:40 AM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      IPL from ##MACH#A
>
> As a result of checking the QSYSOPR message queue to determine the
> activity
> surrounding the IPL that enacted the changes to QACTJOB & QTOTJOB
> (discussed
> in a previous thread "RE: WRKSBMJOB, WRKUSRJOB slug-li"), I was intrigued
> to
> find that the IPL ran from ##MACH#A.  I had specified PWRDWNSYS with the
> default IPLSRC(*PANEL).
>
> The last time this box was IPL'd before yesterday's was six months ago,
> long
> before I arrived here.  No one here can explain why or how the panel was
> set
> to IPL from the 'A' side.  One would have thought that if there was a
> problem
> with a temporarily applied PTF six months ago that it would have been
> removed
> or fixed by now.  Unfortunately, the system history log only goes back one
> month.
>
> Any ideas on whether I should go ahead and IPL from side 'B'?
>
> Looking at the DSPPTF 5763999 & 5763SS1, PTFs TL98139 & TC98139 were the
> last
> cumes applied.  (This is a V3R2 box.)  The previous ones (superseded) were
> Tx98048, which is, I presume, what we're effectively using on the 'A'
> side.
> Is there a more current cume and is it still available?
>
> Dan Bale
> IT - AS/400
> Handleman Company
> 248-362-4400  Ext. 4952
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