Re: MIDRANGE-L Digest V4 #368

Happened to me once with some strange bug that made a file mysteriously
fill up DASD with garbage records.

When I had come in monday morning the AS/400 was down with an error 
code telling me I passed the threshold.  I had to manually IPL to
a restricted state and clean up disk space which consisted of moving lots
of files to tape, copying the good records from the damaged file to
a new file, deleting the damaged object and renaming the new copy 
to the original filename and reloading the files from tape.  System went down 3
times passing the threshold before I finally got enough free space
to copy the good records.

So, now you want to shut down the system before it hits 100%.  Time to
select the IPL to manual and hit the power button.  I don't know of any
other way.  Then do some cleanup and reIPL (you can probably just start
QINTER and subsystems and such, but with all that DASD cleared up I felt
much safer with a fresh IPL).

Good luck, this is not a fun situation.

Regards,

Jim Langston

Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 11:15:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: Richard Reeve <richreeve@yahoo.com>
Subject: HELP - Need to manually power down S10

I am having a problem whereby I believe that one of
the programmers here had a runaway program that caused
disk utilization to exceed 95% (which is what the
client has the threshold set at).  No one (not even
the console can sign on to the system.  I want to
manually restart the system before dasd usage reaches
100%.  Please help.  Model is S10.

Thanks.  

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