RE: Usage of QABNORMSW systemvalue

On Tuesday, June 30, 1998 12:47 PM, Spirinckx Chris 
[SMTP:Chris.Spirinckx@village.uunet.be] wrote:

> I was thinking of using the QABNORMSW System value.
> However the helptext refers to the ENDJOBABN-command.
> Does anyone of you have any experience with this systemvalue and/or the
> ENDJOBABN-command ?
>
> An other approach would be changing the contents of a dataara during IPL
> and in the PWRDWNSYS-command.
> Is it possible to create an exit point for the powerdown command, and
> will
> this be preserved when upgrading ?

Chris,
  I have used QABNORMSW in the past on S/38 and on AS/400 before ENDJOBABN 
was introduced.  We used it to determine whether to start all subsystems 
or to bring up the console only: our operator got a big screen explaining 
that the previous powerdown was abnormal and to check job logs, etc. to 
determine if any recovery was needed prior to giving the system back to 
the users.

ENDJOBABN will force the machine to do *some* "cleanup" type work that it 
normally undergoes during a power failure, so that's why the IPL looks 
abnormal to the system.

V4R2 has an exit point QIBM_QWC_PWRDWNSYS for pre-powerdown processing, 
but I do not know how/if exit points are preserved through a release 
upgrade.

Buck Calabro
Commsoft, Albany, NY
mailto:mcalabro@commsoft.net

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