Re: History Log Problems

[Neil Palmer <NPalmer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeffrey - just curious,
What OS/400 release are you running and what PTF cum level are you at ?
...Neil


Jeffrey M. Carey wrote:
> 
> This happened to us too, except it caused a few more problems!  Our
> development system was set to 8/23/28 after a IBM hardware update.
> Unfortunately, our CE didn't change it.  So the system came up as
> 8/23/28 and we only noticed because every user with a password
> expiration interval other than *NOMAX had expired passwords!  After all,
> they hadn't changed them in 31 years!  Note that this happened even
> though we hadn't applied any PTF's - so the "inital system date" of
> 8/23/28 is the same even after the Y2K PTF's - when they updated to make
> 28 = 2028, they apparently didn't change the date of 0 = 08/23/28.
> 
> We still have the QHST log out there - if you do a DSPLOG these entries
> show up at the END of the log - they are in the future!
> 
> Even if your CE immediately changes this date, there will be at least
> one QHST out there - the very first IPL will create one.  You can look
> in QSYS for a file like QHST28236A and delete it - that's the future
> log.  Definitely do so before 8/23/2028!
> 
> Neil Palmer wrote:
> >
> > OK - here's a W.A.G.
> > At some point in time you had service done on your system (maybe the control
> > panel was replaced) and the first IPL defaulted to the 08/23/28 default 
>date.
> > This was noticed and corrected.  You keep your QHST logs for a while, and
> > have since applied the V3R6 PTF's for Year 2000 support.  Now the system
> > thinks this log file is for 2028 instead of 1928, and therefore never 
>deletes
> > it when cleanup is run.

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