OK, thanks Sergio! It's good to see the IBMers chime in once in a while!
Out of curiousity, do you know why they built this functionality so that it
starts 70+ jobs? It's something i've had to explain at least 3 times
already to people that have noticed the jobs and associated messages on the
system... my response was that "It's normal... it's for the new software
error logging", but i'm sure the answer was bought 100%...
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Reason code 8 is a normal reason code when a watch session is ending. This
is not a problem and none of the PTFs posted before will fix it. Even when
you did not use ENDWCH, Service Monitor did. Service Monitor ends all of
those watch sessions every time it is ended.
Service Monitor can be restarted because of the following reasons:
1. Changing the QSFWERRLOG value from *LOG to *NOLOG and back to *LOG (this
starts the QSYSWRK/QSRVMON job - which starts the QUSRWRK/SRVMONxxxx jobs)
2. IPLing the system or restarting QSYSWKR and QUSRWRK subsystems - when
the subsystem comes up, the QSRVMON jobs will start - which starts the
SRVMONxxxx jobs
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That sounds like one of the inventory or service director jobs sending
something off to IBM to me.
It seems that the batch of SRVMON messages on our boxes have kicked off
only once or twice in the week we've been at V5R4. Did you just recently
upgrade?
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Chad,
Thanks. Looking forward to hearing your results. In the meantime I'll
go ahead and download the PTF's in preparation.
I check QSYSOPR messages every morning on both of our machines, but this
is the first time I have seen these messages. These were on our
production box; haven't seen anything of this nature on our backup box.
I did notice this one issued about 20 minutes later:
Message ID . . . . . . :
TCP2617
Date sent . . . . . . : 07/27/07 Time sent . . . . . . :
05:32:26
Message . . . . : TCP/IP connection to remote system 207.25.252.200
closed,
reason code
2.
Cause . . . . . : The TCP/IP connection to remote system
207.25.252.200 has
been closed. The connection was closed for reason code 2. Full
connection
details for the closed connection
include:
- local IP address is
12.65.66.10
- local port is
59292
- remote IP address is
207.25.252.200
- remote port is
443
I don't think there's a connection, but that's just a WAG. I can
actually hit the 207.25.252.200 address (an IBM HTTP Server site), but
not the 12.65.66.10 address. The HTTP server on our system, for what
it's worth, is stopped.
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ChadB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Jerry - in looking closer at my jobs I saw the same thing and found these
3
V5R4 PTFs that seemed like a match for the reason code '08' :
SI26806
SI26745
SI26817
SI24998 (coreq of one of the 3)
SI23663 (coreq of one of the 3)
I put them on our dev box yesterday (they were all immediate PTFs) and
will
see if they resolve the messages. It sounds like the high number of jobs
is normal, but I think the messages we've got will probably get resolved
with these PTFs.
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There's been a little bit of a discussion here about the SRVMONxx jobs.
I, too, have 78 of these running but, after the discussion and
investigation, decided they were OK. But this morning, when I checked
QSYSOPR's messages something strange popped out:
Message ID . . . . . . :
CPI3999
Date sent . . . . . . : 07/27/07 Time sent . . . . . . :
05:03:58
Message . . . . : Watch session SRVMON0000 issued by
223998/QUSER/QZRCSRVS
at 07/23/07 11:31:43 has been ended. Reason code:
X'08'
Cause . . . . . : Watch session SRVMON0000 issued by
223998/QUSER/QZRCSRVS
and associated with QSCSWCH has been ended. Reason code: X'08'. The
possible
reason codes
follow:
08 - End Watch (ENDWCH) command or End Watch (QSCEWCH) API was
issued.
The above is just a sample of 78 such messages sent between 05:03:58 and
05:05:15.
Now the other side of the coin is that the jobs are running again. The
start times range from 05:05:20 and 05:05:34.
I know that I didn't issue the ENDWCH command. Any clues?
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