Re: History Log Problems

["Jeffrey M. Carey" <jeffreycarey@xxxxxxx>]

We are on V3R7 and I think we were on C97042 at the time - this was on
6/18/97.



Neil Palmer wrote:
> 
> 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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