Re: SAVE 21 and stay restricted

You are welcome! FYI I do this all the time on our iDevCloud partitions. We don't back most of those up with any schedule simply because of what they are. So when we upgrade I do Exactly what you suggest, a manual or 'attended' backup followed by the upgrade. Given the partitions are small, waiting for everything to start after the backup and then shut back down to start the upgrade is painful! :-)

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

www.Frankeni.com
www.iDevCloud.com - Personal Development IBM i timeshare service.
www.iInTheCloud.com - Commercial IBM i Cloud Hosting.

On 11/1/2016 9:57 AM, Jeff Crosby wrote:

Thank you Larry!


On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 9:52 AM, DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

To actually answer your question: Yes. Press either F12 OR F3 and the
STRSBS doesn't happen so you stay restricted.

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

www.Frankeni.com
www.iDevCloud.com - Personal Development IBM i timeshare service.
www.iInTheCloud.com - Commercial IBM i Cloud Hosting.

On 11/1/2016 8:54 AM, Jeff Crosby wrote:

IBM i 7.1, up to date on PTFs.

Saturday I will be doing a SAVE 21 prior to a cache battery replace. The
SAVE 21 will be attended because I'm using a library device.

When finished with the SAVE 21, I would like the system to stay in
restricted state. The tech is going to fail the cache battery at that
point and we'll issue a PWRDWNSYS. It seems like a waste to start the
controlling subsystem only to immediately shut it down again.

I found this http://www.itjungle.com/fhg/fhg051612-story03.html but it's
from 4 years ago and seems overkill for a one-off.

Question: Because it's attended, when the command comes up at the end to
start the controlling subsystem, what happens if I hit F12? Or F3? Will
that work and leave it restricted?

Thanks.


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