Re: Why my system WAS so sluggish! -- MIDRANGE-L

We have noticed the same thing. However I have seen four ways IBM tried to
get my attention:

1) The 'Degraded' status on WRKDSKSTS, although only after pressing F11
2) A problem entry created with src 27408008
3) A message in QSYSOPR indicating that I had better contact my service
provider *NOW*.
4) The same message in QSYSMSG.

This seems like enough but I would think that at least the messages to
QSYSOPR and QSYSMSG should repeat at some interval.

The problem is indeed the battery for the RAM cache. I'm not so sure it's
actually bad either, it may be just too old. I took one of mine off and
measured the voltage. Right up there. So I discharged it fully. Recharged
it. Re-installed it. Problem solved. (No that machine is NOT on maintenance
:-) )

  - Larry

Bob Larkin wrote:

> 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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