RE: Re[2]: My token ring network croaked -- MIDRANGE-L

How about the QDEVRCYACN system value?  The help text says: 
Device recovery action.  Specifies the action to take when an 
I/O error occurs for an interactive job's work station.

Bob

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From:   ericadelong@pmsc.com [SMTP:ericadelong@pmsc.com]
Sent:   Thursday, May 07, 1998 2:55 PM
To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject:        Re[2]: My token ring network croaked


You know, I don't really remember just what we did. I was not 
directly involved
with this.....

I'm not certain if a CHGCMDDFT applied to ENDJOB would affect 
job abends. For
that matter, that could be a horrible fix if a job abends and 
you need the
joblog to identify the problem.

Perhaps you could write a simple CL program to issue an ENDJOB 
with LOGLMT(1).
Identify the message issued for your communications failure and

CHGMSGD MSGID(xxxnnnn) MSGF(msgfile) DFTPGM(yourENDJOBPGM)

hth. Just one idea....
Eric A DeLong
ericadelong@pmsc.com

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Subject: Re: My token ring network croaked
Author:  <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com > at INTERNET
Date:    5/6/98 4:45 PM


Eric !

Where/how do you use this ? I see that the ENDJOB command has a 
field for this
information, but if the system is ending these jobs due to a 
communications
failure,
how do you handle this ?

We have had the same thing happen. We have had a NIC start 
beaconing or have had
a
frame realy failure OR the one of the NIC cards in our AS/400 
has "burped" and
all
of a sudden we have 400+ Client Access devices in the US and 
Canada
failing/writing
MASSIVE job logs...

Thanks !

Chuck

ericadelong@pmsc.com wrote:

> Be aware that if a line failure occurs and terminates a large 
number of active
> sessions, the system may seem like it's locked up. This 
happened to to me
years
> ago, so IBM may have fixed it now. The problem had to do with 
writing joblogs
> for all of the terminating jobs. The workaround was to limit 
the ENDJOB
> LOGLMT(1).
>
> Eric A DeLong
> ericadelong@pmsc.com
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> Subject: Re: My token ring network croaked
> Author:  <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com > at INTERNET
> Date:    4/30/98 10:26 PM
>
> Your TRN adapter type?
>
> We are at v4r1, use a 2619, and had a failed line.  Once 
line/IOP was reset
> the majority of SNA sessions could not re-connect.  An IPL was 
the only
> circumvention available.  Happened twice to us.  IBM had a PTF 
that fixed a
> number of many problems re: 2619.  I'm out of office so I'm 
short my
> documentation.  I'd recommend that PTF if you are on V4R1.  We 
and IBM were
> never able to determine the exact cause.  The failures occured 
within 7 days
> of one another.  Since the PTF we have had almost three months 
with no
> problems.....
>
>
>
>
> Help!
>
> We have an AS400 S-10 as a database server for a token ring 
network of 14
> PCs, some of which are Windows 95 and some are WFW 3.11.  The 
Windows 95
> machines run CA95; the WFW 3.11 machines are on CA Enhanced 
for DOS with
> Rumba; all machines also run Microsoft Network.  I have a 
variety of token
> ring cards.
>
> Tuesday afternoon, one of our PC users reported to me that her 
PC had
> frozen in an AS400 session.  Rebooting it (using the reset 
button - the
> keyboard buffer was full, so the three finger salute wouldn't 
work) would
> not load LAN support and when it went looking for the router, 
it began
> beaconing.  Within five minutes, everyone who was in an AS400 
session
> reported their systems down, and no one could log back on to 
the network.
>
> IBM said it was a cabling network.  When we called the cabling 
contractor,
> they came in and found that the AS400 had de-inserted itself 
from the ring.
>  I did a PWRDWNSYS and IPL, which has gotten the system back. 
 My network
> is now running again, but I'm no further ahead as to what the 
problem could
> have been or, more importantly, how to fix it.  As near as I 
can figure out
> from the log, a PC upstream from the AS400 disconnected 
improperly, causing
> the AS400 token ring line to fail.
>
> Any assistance/insight (in non-technical terms, please) would 
be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> TIA
> David Petrie
> Taylor Enterprises - Your First Choice in Association 
Management
>
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