RE: What if console locked

["Chuck Lewis" <chuck.lewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am pretty sure that in the distant past, I have been able to do Sys Req to
get to messages and see where the job was in the process, etc. (?)

Chuck

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff Young
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 2:25 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: What if console locked

The reason the console would not allow the Sys Req key was that you were in
a Restricted Mode.
In this environment, all subsystems are ended, and QCTL (or your controling
subsystem) is limited to a single job which must be the console.
This is a requirement for SAVSYS and some other SAVE ALL operations.
In this environment, AFIK, you have *no* way to get into the system other
than the console job.
It is usualy a good idea to set the QSYSOPR msgq to *BREAK mode before you
start so you can see and answer any messages.
If your job may send *INQ messages to another message queue, you should set
that message queue to break mode also.
 
Hope this helps.
 
Jeff