RE: SAVSYS & Break Messages - V5R4 -- MIDRANGE-L

Pete,

Curiosity question. I have ops con direct attached (to my PC) on a V6R1
520. To switch to ops con LAN attach, is it as simple as:

1) install a 2nd NIC in my PC
2) Run a cat5 cable from "T5" port on the 520 to this new NIC
3) then there's gotta be _something_ I do at either the 520 control panel,
ops con software on my PC, or both.

I think I'd rather be at LAN attach as there are fewer and fewer PCs with a
serial port these days.

Thanks.

--
Jeff Crosby
UniPro FoodService/Dilgard
P.O. Box 13369
Ft. Wayne, IN 46868-3369
260-422-7531
www.dilgardfoods.com

The opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily the opinion of my
company. Unless I say so.

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-
bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Pete Massiello
Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 12:40 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: SAVSYS & Break Messages - V5R4

Cindi,

Find an old PC, and make that your operations console, you will love
it once it is set up. I always put two Ethernet cards in it, one to the
company network, and the other directly connected to an Ethernet port on

the

i5. I don't want anything (routers, switches) in between my console and
400.

This is a message in your job log because you have libraries/objects
that can't be saved. You need to find out what they are and fix them.
Damaged objects, objects locked (not likely when you are doing a

Restricted

Save). Once you fix why the problem is happening then you won't get the
message. Have you run a RCLSTG lately (always a good idea). Do you have
hardware problems that are causing objects to become damaged?

Funny story on damaged objects: I once got called into an AS/400
shop because of damaged objects. They moved the machine and all of a

sudden

they were getting problems. I told them moving a machine from one side of
the building to another doesn't cause damage unless you rolled it from

point

A to B. They were on V4R3. Since some of the objects were parts of the

OS,

I needed to find his latest Full System save. He hands me a tape, and I

put

the tape into the machine, and about 5 minutes later I hear the UPS alarm

off and I look over and the machine is off. There is power, but the

machine

is off. I am trying to figure out what made the machine just go down. Of
course, this was like just pulling the plug the machine goes down hard. I
get the machine back up, and start looking to do a restore of the OS/400
parts and I get a not found on tape. Display the tape, and I can see it

the tape. Try this again, and again not found. I further look into this,
and realize the tape he gave me was V4R1, although it was his last full
system save. We have to go to the release CDs to fix the problem, and

then

reinstall the PTFs. Everything is fine after these reinstall, and I have
him immediately do a full system backup. Two days later I am at the
account, standing next to the operators small refrigerator when the fax
machine gets an incoming fax, it starts to warm up (old fax machine with
paper on a roll and it would burn the image into the paper), and then the
UPS alarm kicks in, and the 400 goes down. The operator had moved the
machine, and plugged his refridge into the UPS along with the fax machine,
and every time they received a fax when the refridgerator was running it
overloaded the UPS and crashed their machine. Each time they would get
damaged objects. He was never able to get a full system save because of

the

damaged objects, so he just gave up.

Pete

Pete Massiello
iTech Solutions
http://www.itechsol.com

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Cyndi Bradberry
Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 9:43 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: SAVSYS & Break Messages - V5R4

List,

We attempted an unattended SAVSYS this weekend. Our default is to not
break for messages during the back-up.

Define Save System and User Data Defaults

Type choices, press Enter.

Devices . . . . . . . . . . . ULT Names

Prompt for commands . . . . . N Y=Yes, N=No

Check for active files . . . . N Y=Yes, N=No

Message queue delivery . . . . *NOTIFY *BREAK, *NOTIFY

Start time . . . . . . . . . . 23:15:00 *CURRENT, time

Vary off network servers . . . *NONE *ALL, *NONE

Unmount file systems . . . . . N Y=Yes, N=No

More...
F3=Exit F12=Cancel

And yet, the system sat and waited at a break message, CPF3777 to let
us know that there were 2 libraries partially saved ! I discovered this
Sunday morning when I tried to VPN into my system and TCP was not
running. I ended up making a trip to town to answer the message and
allow the system to complete the save.

In talking to my system administrator today, he said this was the third
time this halt had happened. He had thought he hadn't set the message
queue properly before and so had triple checked things this time.

Has this happened to anyone else ? I'm off to search thru the APAR's &
PTF's.

TIA,
Cyndi B.
Boise
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