Re: NEWI Daemon & IPLing

I've seen some reponses to this about security of the BPCS objects, but we also
had problems with security for some AS400 System Objects for TCP/IP.  As was
mentioned, the AS400 runs the Startup C/L defined in your system parms under
user profile QPGMR.  When we looked at our joblog for the BPCS Server jobs
started during IPL, we seen the error messages about security for some system
objects.  I changed these system objects, to allow *PUBLIC *USE.  This resolved
our problem of getting the BPCS Server jobs to start during IPL.

Kevin Schlautman
ConAgra/USFI





Dennis Munro <DMunro@badgerminingcorp.com> on 12/28/99 08:58:53 AM

Please respond to BPCS-L@midrange.com

To:   "'BPCS Users'" <BPCS-L@midrange.com>
cc:    (bcc: Kevin G. Schlautman/TPOmaha/ConAgra)
Subject:  NEWI Daemon & IPLing




I had put the following message on the Midrange e-mail list Friday morning
but forgot to also put it on the BPCS e-mail list.  Well, here it is.
<SNIP>
To all,
We are running BPCS 6.0.02, full C/S, Mar'98 cum, on an IBM S20 running
V4R2M0.  Since putting  the Nov 17, 1997 BPCS cum on, I have not been able
to get one daemon to start up automatically ONLY after IPLing my machine.
Before installing this cum, I could submit the job & all was fine.  Since
then I have to start this one daemon manually after the IPL.  Actually, I
get a CPF error that reminds me to start the daemon & I actually don't
remember what the CPF message number is.  I worked with one of the SSA help
line people just to get the code below to work for this daemon but never
bothered to ask about the IPL problem.  We run 24/7 so IPLing is not
something that happens as often as it probably should & I kind of forget
about the problem - more of a nuisance than a problem.
The kicker is this.  Since installing an IBM 720 test/dev machine running
V4R4M0 & copying all of BPCS to it, I do not have to start this daemon
manually after IPLing.  What is different between V4R2M0 & V4R4M0 (I suppose
a lot & that makes the question kind of dumb to ask) that would make this
one daemon behave differently?  And is there something that I can do to my
production machine to fix my problem?
Both machines use the exact same CL to start BPCS and the daemons it
requires.  I stop BPCS from running every night for a backup & this same CL
runs okay on the production machine.  It's okay for me but there just might
come the day when I'm not here when an IPL is performed (it's written down
but will somebody remember) & find out that BPCS won't work because one of
the daemons has not been started.
The following is part of the code from my CL program starting BPCS:
/* Start TCP/IP Running                                              */
             STRTCP     STRSVR(*YES) STRIFC(*YES)
             MONMSG     MSGID(TCP1A04)

            DLYJOB     DLY(300)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/* Set Up System To Start The BPCS's NEWI Daemon                     */
             ADDLIBLE   LIB(NEWILIB)
             MONMSG     MSGID(CPF2103)

/*           This Was For Pre-Cum 11/17                              */
/*           SBMJOB     CMD(CALL PGM(NWID) PARM('9007')) +           */
/*                        JOBD(NEWILIB/NWIJOBD)                      */

/*           This Is For Cum 11/17                                   */
             NEWILIB/STRNWID    PORT(9007) JOBD(NEWILIB/NWIJOBD)
             MONMSG     MSGID(CPF3CF1)

             RMVLIBLE   LIB(NEWILIB)
             MONMSG     MSGID(CPF2104)
<SNIP>

Again, the kicker is that this daemon will not start up automatically after
an IPL but it works every night when BPCS is stopped for a backup.  Also,
the same exact CL program runs in both situations.

Anybody have a clue as to why?  I will be changing my production system to
V4R4M0 sometime in the next two months so the question is more for other
people with the same problem (are there any?????).

Thanks for any insight.

Dennis

"One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be
done." -- Marie Curie
"I love deadlines.  I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they
go flying by."  Dilbert's Words Of Wisdom:

Dennis Munro
Badger Mining Corporation
dmunro@badgerminingcorp.com <mailto:dmunro@badgerminingcorp.com>
(920) 361-2388

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