Automatic save at IPL

["O'Connor, Peter H." <PHOC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bill asks,

 "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)."

1. When you IPL, QSTRUP pgm is executed which starts up your subsystems.  
2.  You are doing save in the wrong place, you should be doing save just
before the poweroff and NOT the poweron.
3.  You have to be in restricted state to save the entire system and the
save has to be executed from the console.
4.  You can build a CLP that can accomplish the save before leaving which
will do the save then pwrdwnsys *immed restart(*yes).   This will
accomplish what you want.
5.  The biggest problem you would have is security of the console when know
one is in the computer room.
6.  There are package out on the market that will do all this for you like
SmartCommand, The Gillotine etc.


Peter H. O'Connor
PAE Inc.
7 Riverway Rd.
Salem, MA 01970-5343
978-744-8612(T)
978-745-7945(F)
e-mail 102736.3535@compuserve.com
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