Re: Determining last ipl date & time?

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Hello Tim,

There are many ways to determine the last IPL:

        1/ Create a data area and have your start-up program set the date and 
time
                NOTE:- not 100% perfect because the start-up program runs 
whenever the 
controlling subsystem is started, not just when an IPL occurs, so you'ld need 
to track 
whether this was the first start of the start-up program.

        2/ Use DSPLOG and search QHST for messages CPI0C04 and CPF0934.  If 
you're quick 
enough they may still be in QSYSOPR also.

        3/ Check the start date and time of the SCPF job.  You can use the 
QUSRJOBI API 
to get the information for that job.  It always has job number 000000 and user 
profile 
QSYS.

        4/ I think the DSPIPLA command is supposed to show that information 
also.

but by far the easiest is to use a journal.  The system stores the IPL date and 
time in 
every journal receiver to create a boundary entry.  So create a journal 
receiver called 
IPL and a journal called IPL and then you can use the DSPJRN command to view 
the 
entries.  If you never attach files to the journal it will only contain IPL 
entries (and 
possibly change journal entries).

Regards,
Simon Coulter.

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Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 07:48:42 -0500
From: "TLTruax" <truax@usaor.net>
To: "MIDRANGE-L list" <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Reply-To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Determining last ipl date & time?

hi all,
I work for a company that has 28 AS400's spread throughout the country and it'd 
be nice to be able to determine the last ipl date & time on these machines 
without having to bother someone in operations to look it up for me.  I know if 
you CALL QSYS/QWCCRTEC it will do a quicky dump to QPSRVDMP spool file with a 
blow by blow of the last system IPL... but I ain't authorized to run this 
program on these machines as I am but a lowly programmer security 
classification.
Thanks to all and have a great day!
T.L.Truax
http://members.xoom.com/truax