RE: Remote system saves

I believe it would have.    

-----Original Message-----
From: John Candidi [mailto:jacandidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 2:18 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Remote system saves


So what you are saying, is that if the console does not fall asleep, it
should work?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Burns, Bryan" <burnsbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 3:08 PM
Subject: RE: Remote system saves


> Al,
>
> Tried that once in May and got burned.  Scheduled it for 00:01:00 from our
> twinax console (a Decision Data model 1437G) the night before our upgrade
> from V4R5 to V5R2.
>
> Got up at 4:30 A.M. to check it from home and it had not started,
WRKACTJOB
> showed
>
>   DSPLYA0      QSECOFR    INT  .0   DLY-00:01:00      DSPW
>
> Wasn't sure what happened but thought I might as well kick off a MAPICS
> backup from home before I drive in to troubleshoot from the console.
Kicked
> off the MAPICS backup and drove in.
>
> I started working on the console to troubleshoot why my save 21 never
> started and all the sudden I get a message that subsystems are ending! The
> save 21 started as soon as I started working on the console.  Right in the
> middle of my MAPICS backup!
>
> Near as I can tell, the console fell asleep (autodim was set to YES)
> preventing the save from starting as scheduled.
>
> So we lost a few hours on our upgrade.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Al Barsa [mailto:barsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 1:12 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Re: Remote system saves
>
>
>
> There's a (relatively [V4R1]) new option on GO SAVE 21 for start time.
Set
> it any time within the next 23:59:59, and that's when it will start.
>
> Al
>
>