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   3. Re: MIDRANGE-L digest, Vol 1 #1679 - 10 msgs (Vernon Hamberg)
   4. RE: Need to scan files (Vernon Hamberg)
   5. RE: Need to scan files (Vernon Hamberg)
   6. CAE - Windows XP (Rodriguez, Jose Amable)
   7. RE: qzshsystem api (Vernon Hamberg)
   8. Re: RE: RE: ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! (Mike Naughton)
   9. RE: qzshsystem api (David Morris)
  10. Fw:      Re: Huge x86 servers vs. Alpha, SPARC, Power{3/4} (Adam
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  11. Re: Why my system WAS so sluggish! (Philipp Rusch)

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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 13:00:52 -0500
From: Mark Allen <allenmark@nu-z.net>
Subject: RE: Customer problems
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Organization: Wilkes Telephone and Electric
Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com

Southern charm, where'd you get that Anne, GA, MS, SC, NC???

Mark Allen
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 11:00:40 -0700
From: "David Morris" <David.Morris@plumcreek.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Subject: RE: qzshsystem api
Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com

Joe,

I have indeed tried appending a x'00' as well as
specifying options(*string). I really wish the
message would tell me what it is trying to run.
My best guess is that the command needs to be
passed as ASCII. I hate to write a wrapper
for the translation API only to find out it
is something else.

Thanks,

David Morris

>>> joepluta@PlutaBrothers.com 04/05/02 10:37 AM >>>
> From: Joel Fritz
>
> Does anyone have any experience with QzshSystem()?  I was playing
around
> with it yesterday and it worked but it didn't.  Using the
> prototype below, I
> passed in a command string, the call executed successfully--well, it
> returned 7--and nothing happend.  I tried sending a directory listing
to a
> file and calling a program that created a small text file.
>
> Dqzhsystem        pr            10i 0 extproc('QzshSystem')
> D cmdstring                       *   value  options(*string)

I haven't tried it, but I know Unix commands like nulls at the end.  Did
you
make sure to append a null (x'00') at the end of your command string?

Joe


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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 12:11:19 -0600
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
From: Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@attbi.com>
Subject: Re: MIDRANGE-L digest, Vol 1 #1679 - 10 msgs
Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com

Is it appropriate to send InfoCenter issues through this channel?

BTW, thanks for your efforts.

At 11:49 AM 4/5/02 -0600, you wrote:
>Dare, I'll do my very best! .... perhaps we can get to the root cause and
>solve that!
>
>*********************
>Message: 6
>From: "Dare @ Work" <oludare@ix.netcom.com>
>To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
>Subject: Re: Customer problems
>Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 11:53:26 -0500
>Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com
>
>Great Anne,
>
>I hope you will be able to handle the barrage of messages you will be
>receiving.  There are a lot of dissatisfied IBM customers here on the list
>and out there.
>
>
>************
>Have a great day! and .... Enthusiasm is like a ripple in the water... It
>spreads!
>
>
>Anne C. Lucas, Project Exec, iSeries Nation and iSeries Marketing -
>www.ibm.com/eserver/nation1
>205/823-4831  T/L 537-9968,  eFax:  603-687-8053,  800/223-3907 Pager
>
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 12:16:14 -0600
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
From: Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@attbi.com>
Subject: RE: Need to scan files
Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com

FYI, we show QShell interpreter as opt 30 of 5722SS1, *COMPATIBLE. CUM
level is 2036, so it's not actually at latest level.

At 12:56 PM 4/5/02 -0500, you wrote:
>Well Vernon, I guess you're just "special" ;-)
>
>I have tried this on both our Production and Test boxes.
>They're both a V5R1 but at different CUM levels (Test
>box is the most current - latest CUM).
>
>Think I'll wait till the Systems Programmer comes back
>on Monday so I can get the CUM levels for both machines
>and then will give IBM tech support a call.
>
>This is really strange. BTW my grep syntax is identical
>to yours - as would be expected.
>
>Terry
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Vernon Hamberg [mailto:vhamberg@attbi.com]
> > Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 12:03 PM
> > To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> > Subject: RE: Need to scan files
> >
> >
> > By listing multiple members. I tried wildcards, but no good.
> > Then ran grep
> > with -h flag to get help text. Got syntax.
> >
> > I'm at v5r1. Have no idea why Terry's attempts are not working.
> >
> > Here's a listing of what I did, using F6:
> >
> >   $
> >
> >   pwd
> >
> >   /Vern
> >
> >   $
> >
> >   cd
> > /qsys.lib/vern.lib/splf.file
> >   $
> >
> >   ls
> >
> >   CMPEXDFN.MBR    PEXDFN.MBR
> >
> >   $
> >
> >   tail
> > pexdfn.mbr
> >       *ALL
> >
> >   Selected MI Complex
> > Instructions:
> >       *NONE
> >
> >   Selected
> > Events:
> >       Category  : TRCTYPE              -  Command Trace
> > Types
> >            SLTEVT                      -
> >
> >       Category  : BASEVT               -  Base
> > Events
> >            PMCO                 PMCO   -  Performance
> > Measurement Counter
> > Overflow
> >       Category  : DSKSVREVT            -  Dasd Server
> > Events
> >           USER                 SRV    -  Service
> >
> > $
> >
> > tail
> > *.mbr
> >
> > tail: 001-0023 Error found opening file *.mbr. No such path or
> > directory.
> > $
> >
> > grep
> > -h
> >
> > grep: 001-3010 usage: grep [-E|-F] [-c|-l|-q] [-ihnsvwxy] [-e
> > pattern_list]
> > [-f pattern_file] [pattern] [file ...]
> > $
> >
> > grep "PMCP"
> > *.mbr
> >
> > grep: 001-0023 Error found opening file *.mbr. No such path or
> > directory.
> > $
> >
> > ls
> >
> > CMPEXDFN.MBR    PEXDFN.MBR
> >
> > $
> >
> > grep "PMCP" cmpexdfn.mbr
> > pexdfn.mbr
> >
> > $
> >
> > grep "PMCO" cmpexdfn.mbr
> > pexdfn.mbr
> >
> > cmpexdfn.mbr:I
> > -        =C0   8BASEVT        =F7   !                       !
> > PMCO        I
> >   =C0  \ D -                       =C0    BA
> > VT        0   !                       !    PMC                 0000007
> > 0000007
> > pexdfn.mbr:         PMCO                 PMCO   -
> > Performance Measurement
> > Counter Overflow
> > pexdfn.mbr:         PMCO                 PMCO   -
> > Performance Measurement
> > Counter Overflow
> > pexdfn.mbr:         PMCO                 PMCO   -
> > Performance Measurement
> > Counter Overflow
> > $
> >
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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 12:18:47 -0600
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
From: Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@attbi.com>
Subject: RE: Need to scan files
Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com

To repeat, I've got it going on both source and data. Strrrrange.

At 07:45 AM 4/5/02 -0500, you wrote:
>This is a multipart message in MIME format.
>--
>[ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ]
>Interesting.  I tried it here and got the same results as you.  Nix on the
>data pf's, but ok on the source pf's.
>
>I know very little about Unix.  So this command will not search through a
>directory?  Thus no ability to search through all the members is a set of
>files.  Therefore it is probably not worth the fight to get IBM to have
>this working on data pf's.
>
>Rob Berendt
>--
>"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
>safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
>Benjamin Franklin
>
>
>
>
>Winchester Terry <terry.winchester@raymondcorp.com>
>Sent by: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
>04/05/2002 06:49 AM
>Please respond to midrange-l
>
>
>         To:     "'midrange-l@midrange.com'" <midrange-l@midrange.com>
>         cc:
>         Fax to:
>         Subject:        RE: Need to scan files
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Vernon Hamberg [mailto:vhamberg@attbi.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 6:40 PM
> > To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> > Subject: RE: Need to scan files
> >
> >
> > Don't have QSHELL installed on this system. Have you tried
> > extending the path to the member?
>
>It appears to work on *source* physical files, but not with
>regular physical files.
>
> > A file is treated like a directory, the member is the
> > real data part.
>
>The file=directory theory is interesting:
>
>cd DSIPICKS.FILE
>$
>ls
>DSIPICKS.MBR
>$
>tail DSIPICKS.MBR
>
>tail: 001-0023 Error found opening file DSIPICKS.MBR. Operation not
>supported.
>
>Also got the same error for the grep command.
>
>On the bright side, maybe it will work in V5R2 ;-)
>
>Terry
>
>
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Message: 6
From: "Rodriguez, Jose Amable" <jarodriguez@grupom.com.do>
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: CAE - Windows XP
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 14:16:29 -0400
Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com

Hello,

             Wondering if anyone has overcome the issue of the need to have
Administrative rights in Windows XP to be able to use Client Access Express
V5R1 ????


Thanks in advance....

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Message: 7
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 12:30:36 -0600
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
From: Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@attbi.com>
Subject: RE: qzshsystem api
Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com

 From the text on the API, it seems it is running qsh with the command you
give it. qsh works with EBCDIC, so that should not be the problem. But
we've all been shoulded on, right?

It does mention that the return value is from waitpid(). It's actually the
second parameter on that API. There are a number of macros (C-type) in
member WAIT of file SYS in QSYSINC. How are you at converting C macros to
RPG?  Heh!  Let me know if you need help there. They're binary ANDs of the
value with some masks.

You might try the C mailing list.

At 11:00 AM 4/5/02 -0700, you wrote:
>Joe,
>
>I have indeed tried appending a x'00' as well as
>specifying options(*string). I really wish the
>message would tell me what it is trying to run.
>My best guess is that the command needs to be
>passed as ASCII. I hate to write a wrapper
>for the translation API only to find out it
>is something else.
>
>Thanks,
>
>David Morris
>
> >>> joepluta@PlutaBrothers.com 04/05/02 10:37 AM >>>
> > From: Joel Fritz
> >
> > Does anyone have any experience with QzshSystem()?  I was playing
>around
> > with it yesterday and it worked but it didn't.  Using the
> > prototype below, I
> > passed in a command string, the call executed successfully--well, it
> > returned 7--and nothing happend.  I tried sending a directory listing
>to a
> > file and calling a program that created a small text file.
> >
> > Dqzhsystem        pr            10i 0 extproc('QzshSystem')
> > D cmdstring                       *   value  options(*string)
>
>I haven't tried it, but I know Unix commands like nulls at the end.  Did
>you
>make sure to append a null (x'00') at the end of your command string?
>
>Joe
>
>
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Message: 8
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 13:38:52 -0500
Subject: Re: RE: RE: ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
From: "Mike Naughton" <mnaughton@juddwire.com>
Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com

Actually, my comment  was meant tongue-in-cheek -- the situation that Joe
was describing just seemed so . . . . Dilbertish? . . . . that I had to
laugh (spent last night at a school building presentation, so right now
I'm looking for laughs any place I can find them :-)

Of course, Joe has explained that things weren't quite as surreal as I
thought they were . . . .

midrange-l@midrange.com writes:
> I'm not sure
>whether you're being tongue-in-cheek or not, but you're right.


Mike Naughton
Senior Programmer/Analyst
Judd Wire, Inc.
124 Turnpike Road
Turners Falls, MA  01376
413-863-4357 x444
mnaughton@juddwire.com


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Message: 9
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 11:51:47 -0700
From: "David Morris" <David.Morris@plumcreek.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Subject: RE: qzshsystem api
Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com

Vern,

I did try translating the string to ASCII,
no go. I will look at WAIT to see if it
brings out any clues.

Thanks,

David Morris


>>> vhamberg@attbi.com 04/05/02 11:43 AM >>>
 From the text on the API, it seems it is running qsh with the command
you
give it. qsh works with EBCDIC, so that should not be the problem. But
we've all been shoulded on, right?

It does mention that the return value is from waitpid(). It's actually
the
second parameter on that API. There are a number of macros (C-type) in
member WAIT of file SYS in QSYSINC. How are you at converting C macros
to
RPG?  Heh!  Let me know if you need help there. They're binary ANDs of
the
value with some masks.

You might try the C mailing list.

At 11:00 AM 4/5/02 -0700, you wrote:
>Joe,
>
>I have indeed tried appending a x'00' as well as
>specifying options(*string). I really wish the
>message would tell me what it is trying to run.
>My best guess is that the command needs to be
>passed as ASCII. I hate to write a wrapper
>for the translation API only to find out it
>is something else.
>
>Thanks,
>
>David Morris


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Message: 10
From: "Adam Lang" <aalang@rutgersinsurance.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Subject: Fw:      Re: Huge x86 servers vs. Alpha, SPARC, Power{3/4}
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 13:47:43 -0500
Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com

Ack!

This was a message on a Linux server group I am on.

The guy was asking for ideas on where to go for a Linux server.  It would
be
running a database ... they were speced out with Dell for about $100K.  He
actually wanted RISC as opposed to x86.

I told him go for the AS/400 running Linux.

IBM didn't return his calls.

Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
http://www.rutgersinsurance.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "JW" <jw@centraltexasit.com>
To: <SERVER-LINUX@LISTS.NETSPACE.ORG>
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 1:43 PM
Subject: Re: Huge x86 servers vs. Alpha, SPARC, Power{3/4}


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> AL >Buy an AS/400 and run Linux on it.
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> AL >You'll have RISC architecture.
> AL >
> AL >You'll have the BEST hardware for DB/file performance.
> AL >
> AL >It's in your price range.
> AL >
> AL >You'll be cool.
>
> Shoulda, Coulda Woulda....
> but IBM failed to return 2 phone calls.
> Compaq (Alpha) was quite snobby over the phone, and didn't have exatly
what we wanted
> (we would have had to go higher or lower).
>
> Sun OTHO treaded us very nicely (as did Dell, of course) and it looks
like
we're going to get a Sun Fire v880 with 4 CPUs.
>
> I was actually rooting for IBM first, Alpha second, SUn 3rd, but ho well,
that's life.
>
> It's all but purchased. Don't think we'll put Linux on it, at least not
right now.
>
> Too bad. I hear administering Solaris isn't fun. Bettern tha
nAdministering WINNT though :-)
>
>
>
>
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>
> - ----------------------------------------------------
> Jonathan Wilson
> System Administrator
> Clickpatrol.com
> Cedar Creek Software     http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com
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Message: 11
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 20:57:51 +0200
From: Philipp Rusch <Philipp.Rusch@rusch-edv.de>
Organization: EDV Beratung Rusch / EDP Consulting Rusch / Rosbach, Germany
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Why my system WAS so sluggish!
Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com

I had problems at different customers when the battery pack of the RAID
controller's cache-RAM was at its end of life. There was an SRC in the
problem log, but no text giving any hint that it could be the cache
controller
or the battery on it. At the first occasion of this (like you noticed a
super
slow motion system and obvious hw-errors and no "abusing" pgms), I called
IBM and they sent a real guru to us: he saw the log and said. "Ok. I know
this, I'm going back to the car to get a battery pack for the controller."
This was a model 170 with a 2740 RAID-controller running V4R3 (last year)
and I don't know if the second level text of that SST message has been
improved.
The same problem happend to another customer short time after, but
that time I already knew ...  ;-)  (model 720 with a 2748 controller).

Regards from germany, Philipp Rusch

Rick Rayburn schrieb:

> Thanks to everyone who contributed their thoughts and information to this
> thread. The 400 community is a great "nation" of people and, as we all
know,
> the 400 is a damn good box to make a living with...now if we can only
> convince IBM!
>
> The reason for my sluggishness turned out to be a bad battery attached to
> one of the I/O cards. There was a message logged in QHST informing of a
> damaged I/O card but alas, it was only 2 lines and no more! So if you
> scrolled past it as I initially did...Too bad that message is not
repeated
> as happens when an ASP threshhold percentage is being challenged. Boy,
did
> it slow us down and it appears as if there was absolutely ZERO reflection
of
> this within the software tools IBM has provided us. Still, I wouldn't
trade
> in my career on the 400 for any other box and with all of the talented
> people in our user group, nothing can escape us for too long!
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Rick Rayburn
>



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