Re: Why my system WAS so sluggish!

[Bob Larkin <blarkin@xxxxxx>]

We noticed on 2 170s that the disk status was listed as "Degraded". I think this
was thru WRKDSKSTS that was saw this. this was V4R5 C00198 (I think) . IBM
replaced the battery packs that power the ram on the cache for the controller
cards. We had not seen any messages, and it had been that way for quite some
time, although we had not had complaints on performance.
Bob

Rick Rayburn wrote:

> 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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