Oh, THAT yellow light. :-))
Paul Nelson
Office 512-392-2577
Cell 708-670-6978
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jerry Adams
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 3:47 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: dasd utilization at 99.56%
Not always, Paul. I was off during the holidays, and my boss called me to
say that the yellow light on our dev box was on. However, everything was
still running. I had him (forgot to mention, he's a PC guy) display the
QSYSMSG message queue. Nothing there and it hadn't phoned home so I told
him I'd look at it when I got back from vacation (didn't want to send him
down the SST route).
When I got in Monday morning, the tape cartridge drive's " clean me" light
was on. I inserted the tape cleaner cartridge and a minute later the light
went out. Oh, and no errors were logged in SST.
Jerry C. Adams
IBM System i Programmer/Analyst
B&W Wholesale
office: 615-995-7024
email: jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul Nelson
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 3:25 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: dasd utilization at 99.56%
Those yellow lights sure give a person a sick feeling, don't they?
Paul Nelson
Office 512-392-2577
Cell 708-670-6978
nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Essinger
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 2:26 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: dasd utilization at 99.56%
In my previous place of employment we had a user written query/400
query that joined every record in a 500,000 record file with every
record in a 5 or 6 million record file and submit it to batch. It
took all day, but the query ate up all the storage, and when all us IT
guys got back from a well deserved afternoon of golf, it was dead.
Died just after the last user signed off at 5:00. I spent most of the
evening with IBM trying to find out why my AS/400 had an attention
light, but no users had called us with system problems.
That user got a refresher course in how to join files in query, and a
very hard time from everyone in the company. Especially IT.
Jim
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Walden H. Leverich
<WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
A very full system will continue to run in my opinion, although you
may
not like the method it chooses to run.
Unless it's changed since I last filled a machine (while ago) a
very-full machine will continue to run, but a totally full machine will
machine-check and go casters up.
-Walden
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Walden H Leverich III
Tech Software
(516) 627-3800 x3051
WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.TechSoftInc.com
Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur.
(Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.)
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