RE: Automatic save at IPL

You must do your system save from the system console and the system must be 
in a restrictive state.  I suggest that you do your save before your IPL. 
 Assuming that your console is in a physically secure location, you may 
write a CL program with a delay job statement at the beginning of the 
program that may run unattended on your console.  Before you leave for the 
weekend, fire up your program interactively on your console.  Obviously, 
your program will have to include commands to place the system into a 
restrictive state and you will want to be sure that the save completes 
before you auto-IPL.  I hope that this helps.

Eric Kempter
Director of MIS
Commair Mechanical Services

-----Original Message-----
From:   bmegenity@ruskin.com [SMTP:bmegenity@ruskin.com]
Sent:   Thursday, April 02, 1998 6:06 AM
To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject:        Automatic save at IPL

Forgive me if this is covered in the archives. By the way, how do I get
to them to see what has transpired before? We are trying to perform a
full, unattended system save every Sunday morning when we IPL. We are
running into problems with the program wanting to be in the restricted
state, which side of the console we are using, which sign the moon is in
(probably not but it seems that way). Can anyone give me a nice, neat
list of things to do to get this to operate correctly. We are on a 510 at 
V3R7 and using an Exabyte Mammoth 8mm tape drive, with a 20/40gb capacity 
(I think).

By the way, we have had excellent luck with this drive except for the
little quirk that when you load software from an 8mm tape that is not of
their particular brand, you MUST clean and restart the tape drive before
you can read another tape. This is a design "feature".

Bill Megenity


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