Re: BPCS not working at all

Scroll through DSPLOG and Check System Messages to see if there is some new error message showing up a lot.
It helps if you have done that from time to time so that you can recognize what is not normal.
I have updated my log of interesting messages since last I shared it.

Are you able to sign onto the OS/400 outside of BPCS and run something that does not eat CPU, so as to verify the problem is with BPCS and not with the 400?

Ops Navigator can get at stuff you cannot get at with regular command line, such as which program is the source of error messages ... on command line you can deal with the message, but a problem I have in testing modifications is to make sure the correct version of a program is running.
www.ibm.com/eserver/iseries/navigator

Have you been running BPCS on this version and OS/400 version for some time with no problem, or did you just do an upgrade (which one ... BPCS or OS/400 or Client Server?) and have the problem happen? If you just did an upgrade, did you get all the IBM APARs for BPCS, or all SSA BMRs for that upgrade? Did you go cold turkey on the upgrade (normal for OS/400) or did you do some pilot testing (normal for BPCS upgrade) and did it run fine?

Are the number of users and how they connect to the 400 the same as they always been?
We have a lot of users connecting via VPN and a few via the Internet.
We have been having intermittent ma bell problems with VPN going down.
When people change forms on the main printer, they use the main console, which as you may know has higher priority than all other connections. Ours is twinax.
We are on 405 CD on V5R1.


Al Macintyre
BPCS/400 Computer Janitor at http://www.globalwiretechnologies.com/
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