Re: backups on AS/400, objects

Well of course system history helps us identify who was on when, if we want 
to take the trouble to dig, but what I seek is a corporate policy of 
cooperation with what they want MIS to do, that is economical.

The original poster in this thread had a somewhat different interest I 
believe.

It is not economical for me to be doing long distance phone calls to remote 
sites to try to determine if the people are really there or gone home & left 
their work stations in the middle of update programs.

I do send message, but unfortunately we do have novice users not yet able to 
recognize messages, let alone repond to them.  Fortunately not many of those 
people doing update programs.

This is one of the reasons I take the whole system down for backup.
Just imagine if we were doing some other kind of save & people signed on in 
middle of it.

I have hard enough time with my boss during EOM ... there are some jobs that 
need only ONE user on running this or that job step, until it is done ... 
second user locks up the job & guess who ... most of the lockups are within 
the same department that knows this & supposed to enforce only one user until 
those jobs completed.

We have had a bunch of crashes with inventory transactions to general ledger 
& every single one of them traced to the people who do that work being 
impatient & going to next step before first step completed.

> Al
>  
>  dumb question, but won't either the workstation/user profile tell you from 
>  the log who it was ?
>  
>  Cheers
>  Evan
>  
>  
>  >People assume the system is available to them any time they want to use 
it,
>  >then if you ask who was on at a particular time, they all have selective
>  >amnesia.

MacWheel99@aol.com (Alister Wm Macintyre) (Al Mac)
AS/400 Data Manager & Programmer for BPCS 405 CD Rel-02 mixed mode (twinax 
interactive & batch) @ http://www.cen-elec.com Central Industries of 
Indiana--->Quality manufacturer of wire harnesses and electrical 
sub-assemblies - fax # 812-424-6838

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