Re: why was a device varied off? (API?)

You might check WRKCFGSTS on these devices.
There are more states than VARY ON and VARY OFF.

Vernon Hamberg wrote:
> I'm not sure, but the messages might show up in the history log.

Thanks, but that really doesn't help much for my problem.  I want to
programmatically delete all unused devices.  I do not want to delete a
device that was varied off by a user typing an incorrect password.

If I use QSYSMSG or QHST, I would have to process it regularly and
create a database file of devices.  Then every time we vary a device
back on for a user, I would need to delete it from that file.  That
sounds like a lot of work.

Somehow the system knows the difference, since I cannot get a signon
display for a device that was varied off due to invalid signon attempts.
 A device that has been varied off from lack of use (or by me using
VRYCFG) will automatically vary back on if I try to use it.

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Sean Porterfield

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