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RE: BRMS CPF5140 Error

Jeff,

We brought in a tech from our BP to do the actual set-up. I'm not much of a hardware person (as noted in an earlier thread today!), but the only "hardware" thing that I remember was running an Ethernet cable from, I think, the T5 slot to a slot in our Cisco switch. (The tech had to fix an error I created when I first set up the 520 because I had plugged something into T5 which he had to change to T6 - didn't take notes.)

I know that we did *not* install any cards in either the System i or the PC's. In Service Tools you have to define a unique "device id" for each console that you want. This is not the same thing as the device description. Anyway, when you set up the PC to be a console, there is a "hard-wired" connection of sorts between the specific PC and the device id (which can be reset later if the PC goes completely belly up). I don't know if the System i writes a file to the PC to make this connection or uses the PC's mac address or what. But it's a security feature; unlike the direct-attached ops console you don't want just anyone logging in and becoming a console. My boss uses one device id and I use another one (the third one is a spare right now).

Obviously only one person at a time can be the console.

As for the TCP/IP being down in a restricted state, I don't know that it is or isn't. I do know that I have done a few Save 21's, and installed two cume's since setting up the LAN console. During the latter, the console does goes "away" during the IPL, but, when it has reached the right state, it comes back to the PC (mine) that started the IPL. I just powered down our backup system so we could change the UPS. Did it from my desk. After the power up, my PC was the console - but my boss could have taken it over if he wanted to.

I don't know how all of this stuff works, Jeff. As far as I'm concerned it's just PFM. The only extra hardware was the Ethernet cable that I mentioned. Pete, Larry, et al, would do a better job of explaining how it works. I just know that it beats the heck out of a twinax terminal or OPS console.

Jerry C. Adams
IBM System i Programmer/Analyst
--
B&W Wholesale
office: 615-995-7024
email: jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff Crosby
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 2:08 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: BRMS CPF5140 Error

How do you do this? (3 PCs that could each be the console.) When we got
our 520 some years back, I opted for the Direct Attach ops con because I
couldn't understand how a LAN ops con would work for restricted state
backups, with no TCP/IP running. Recently, Pete described the LAN ops con
as a cat5 direct from a port on the I to a 2nd NIC in the PC. That made
sense to me. It's direct attach with a network cable instead of a serial
cable.

Now you say you have 3 PCs that can be the LAN ops con. You surely don't
have a 2nd NIC as well as a completely separate network in your office just
for this, do you? Do your LAN consoles go over the regular TCP/IP network?
If so, how do you do *SAVSYS in restricted state without TCP/IP up?

I must fundamentally not understand something here.

--
Jeff Crosby
UniPro FoodService/Dilgard
P.O. Box 13369
Ft. Wayne, IN 46868-3369
260-422-7531
www.dilgardfoods.com

The opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily the opinion of my
company. Unless I say so.


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-
bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jerry Adams
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 2:23 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: BRMS CPF5140 Error

Jeff,

The LAN Console, next to an HMC, is the way to go. I have three defined
in
SST. First before you can never tell when a PC is going to die; it is
Windows after all (except for the lucky ones running Linux). Second, I
have
it defined so that one of the others can take over the console. For
example,
I usually start the daily backups on my PC/Console and then leave; my
boss,
if he wants, can just take over the console function while the console is
running this job (or any other).

Jerry C. Adams
IBM System i Programmer/Analyst
--
B&W Wholesale
office: 615-995-7024
email: jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-
bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Pete Massiello
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 12:27 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: BRMS CPF5140 Error

Jeff,

I have 3 customers using the *CONSOLE, and 2 are on Operations LAN
Console, and 1 is on Operations Direct Console. They all love it.

Pete

Pete Massiello
iTech Solutions
http://www.itechsol.com



-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff Curtis
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 9:44 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: BRMS CPF5140 Error

Pete do you have customers using the *console option and if so has any had
the problem with the BRMS job killing any DSP01 jobs?

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Pete Massiello
<pmassiello-ml@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

Rob,

You can do this with BRMS as of V5R4 I believe. I am doing it at
a
few customers who use BRMS, and it works rather nicely.

Pete

Pete Massiello
iTech Solutions
http://www.itechsol.com




-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of rob@xxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 3:56 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: BRMS CPF5140 Error

I suspect that running a batch job in QCTL does not qualify as being in
"restricted state".



http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v6r1m0/topic/experience/wmr



stateabstract53.htm?resultof=%22%72%65%73%74%72%69%63%74%65%64%22%20%22%72%6
5%73%74%72%69%63%74%22%20%22%73%74%61%74%65%22%20
"Restricted state is a condition where all the subsystems on the i5/OS
system have ended and only a single user job remains active in the
controlling subsystem."
I would suspect that the "single user job" would normally be DSP01 or
some
such thing.

So maybe you have a choice:
- that single user batch job with your console totally killed
- having a system console.

Maybe the programmer at the other company is right. And if you try the
batch job you're SOL trying to check it's status?


Rob Berendt
--
Group Dekko Services, LLC
Dept 01.073
Dock 108
6928N 400E
Kendallville, IN 46755
http://www.dekko.com





From:
"Jeff Crosby" <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To:
"'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:
06/04/2009 03:37 PM
Subject:
RE: BRMS CPF5140 Error
Sent by:
midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx



A different Jeff here. :)

Per that archived post, this can be done even when doing a full backup,
including the *SAVSYS, right?

--
Jeff Crosby
UniPro FoodService/Dilgard
P.O. Box 13369
Ft. Wayne, IN 46868-3369
260-422-7531
www.dilgardfoods.com

The opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily the opinion of my
company. Unless I say so.


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-
bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of lgoodbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 2:40 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: BRMS CPF5140 Error

Jeff,

If you are on V5R4 or newer, can I suggest you submit the backup to
the
controlling subsystem instead of to the console? It is then a
hands-off
operation independent of the console. Here is a note from the
archives:
http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/200802/msg00770.html


Excerpt:
"*SYSTEM policy page 2
Controlling subsystem
Allow backups in batch: *YES
Restricted state end time: nnn
This allows BRMS to end the batch job if restricted state time in
minutes is exceeded. Otherwise, need to force DST on console and take
option to end restricted batch job.

"Then in your job scheduler:
STRBKUBRM CTLGRP(WEEKLTOCG) SBMJOB(*CTLSBS)"


We've run this since we upgraded to V5R4 and had only one issue which
required going into DST and force ending the backup. We use this for
our
weekly (Sunday) full system save and had no issues with it for over a
year or so.

If you pursue, make sure the restricted state end time (expressed in
minutes) is large enough to accommodate your backup window. Last week
our system pulled out of restricted state automatically (good!) near
the
end of the backup (bad!), so we had to increase the restricted state
time. Other than that had wonder experience with it.

HTH,
Loyd


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff Curtis
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 8:05 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: BRMS CPF5140 Error

Could it be that either


a.) there were two DSP01 jobs on the iSeries and BRMS did not know
which
one to use so it aborted with the CPF5140 error?

b.) the BRMS console job was not signed on with the same id which
runs
the
BRMS save job?

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Jeff Curtis <jcurtis1027@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

It was a shared session.


On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 5:03 PM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Was your hmc 5250 session "shared" or "dedicated"? We never use
"dedicated" anymore. With "shared" you can:
- kill the session on the hmc (but not the hmc) and it should stay
running
- share the session from your pc, etc
The CPF5140 error really sounds like a drop between the console and
the
box. You should be able to do a
WRKJOB DSP01 or whatever your console is called, and look at that
joblog.



Rob Berendt
--
Group Dekko Services, LLC
Dept 01.073
Dock 108
6928N 400E
Kendallville, IN 46755
http://www.dekko.com





From:
Jeff Curtis <jcurtis1027@xxxxxxxxx>
To:
midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date:
06/02/2009 04:20 PM
Subject:
BRMS CPF5140 Error
Sent by:
midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx



I am hoping someone can help me here. While running a BRMS
backup
(a
full
system save) with the *Console option and the BRMS console running
on
our
HMC 5250 session, a CPF5140 error appeared and killed the backup
and
the
console. We had to reconnect and do an IPL. Has anyone had
this
happen
before and what can be done to correct it?


Thanks,


Jeff

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