RE: LDFX02 task - what is it? -- MIDRANGE-L

Hmm - sounds like the vendor has a RISC system and is creating a common
install tape (specifying TGTRLS for V3R1M0) that will work for all
customers.  Of course, as you discovered, if you create/save for a CISC
release on a RISC machine, and restore it back to a RISC system, you
have no control over when the object conversion is done (just as if you
were restoring from RISC to CISC).
You could try asking the vendor to create your tape with TGTRLS for RISC
- which shouldn't be a big deal, but if he has to recreate all his
programs again (after already specifying a CISC TGTRLS) it could become
a bigger task.  For now I guess you'll just have to restore this stuff
after hours.  You should also make sure you NEVER restore this stuff
interactively, but always in a batch job (you didn't say how the job was
running).  I'd also suggest you may want to run the job at a low run
priority (maybe 60+).

PS - Ain't that audit journal a handy thing !   :-)


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        -----Original Message-----
        From:   John Swartzendruber [SMTP:johnbs@mma-online.org]
        Sent:   Wednesday, January 21, 1998 4:53 AM
        To:     Midrange Listserver
        Subject:        RE: LDFX02 task - what is it?

        Ok, it was a restore/object conversion that did it. what
surprised me was that
        it happened even tho the restore command has frcobjcnv(*sysval)
and sysval
        qfrccvnrst = '0' (which means don't force conversion). 

        The apar II09367 explained that if a program is created on RISC,
saved to a CISC
        release level, and then restored on RISC; the programs are
automatically and
        unconditionally converted to RISC format during the restore.

        Fortunately there were only 2 programs being restored, and only
dragged the
        system down for 10 minutes. I need to have a talk with that
vendor though.

        btw, the user that did the restore happens to be one that I log
all commands for
        using the audit journal, so it was real easy to see just what
command was run.

        ____________________Reply Separator____________________
        Subject: RE: LDFX02 task - what is it?
        Author: Neil Palmer
        Date:  1/20/98 6:55 PM

        Tasks beginning with 'LD'  are Load/Dump tasks.  Was some nice
user
        doing an interactive save or restore?
        Or worse, as you have a RISC system, was some nice user
restoring a
        library from a CISC machine and specifying (either based on
sysval
        QFRCCVNRST, or via the FRCOBJCVN parm on RSTOBJ/RSTLIB) that
CISC to
        RISC object conversion should be done during the restore
operation ?


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