Re: QPWRRSTIPL Reset

[Jack Kingsley <iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx>]

Rich, well, I did find it.
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/qpwrrstipl-looses-its-value-and-system-doesnt-restart-automatically


On Sat, Nov 6, 2021 at 6:51 AM Jack Kingsley <iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Rich, the default is 0, maybe it was never changed or was and got put
> back.  I couldn't find in the documentation where if the value is set to 1
> that it gets set back by the OS to 0.
>
> On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 10:06 AM Rich Loeber <rich@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > We had an unplanned power failure lasting about 2 hours here last night.
> > Power was restored at about 9pm but one of our servers failed to restart.
> > This morning, after a manual restart, I found that the system value
> > QPWRRSTIPL was set to zero.  I set it to 1 but I'm quite certain that it
> > was set correctly in the past.
> >
> > After checking on this, I found that whenever there is a power failure,
> > the OS changes this value back to zero.  I'm wondering how other shops deal
> > with this.  Based on IBM's documentation, it is probably not a good idea to
> > add the change back to a value of one in the startup program.
> >
> > Rich Loeber - @richloeber
> > Kisco Information Systems
> > http://www.kisco.com
> >
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