RE: Testing startup program (Was: way to reactivate (IP) ifc automatically?)

[Neil Palmer <npalmer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually, you don't have to do a complete IPL to test your startup
program.
>From the console just go to a restricted state (ENDSYS), then when you
are down to a restricted state (check for message in QSYSOPR) just
STRSBS QCTL (assuming QCTL is you controlling subsystem in QCTLSBSD
sysval).
I suggest adding the following line to the beginning of your startup
program:
 CHGJOB     LOG(4 0 *SECLVL) LOGCLPGM(*YES) 
Then after startup you can do WRKJOB QSTRUPJD to check the joblog.



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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Hall [SMTP:jhall@hillmgt.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 1998 2:28 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: way to reactivate (IP) ifc automatically?
> 
> rwagner@zeunastaerker.de wrote:
> > 
> > John,
> > 
> > >What was the status of the associated line description used by the
> TCP/IP
> > >interface? (You can get this info by issuing command NETSTAT *IFC
> and then
> > >using list option 12 against this Ethernet interface).
> > 
> > I did not check the status - I simply reipled the machine - did not
> know a
> > better
> > method :-(
> 
> This is not windows NT - for most failures you can simply look in the
> QSYSOPR messages and find the failure and ask the system to retry.  We
> hit the virtual device limit and our windows programmer said "Oh, well
> we'll just have to limit our signon screens until you can change
> that." 
> I said "I just did!"  "You can do that ?"
> 
> Yes!  There are very few reasons you will have to IPL your AS400.
> About
> the only reasons we have is to test the startup program!
> 
> I wish you well with your new AS400.  
> 
> John Hall
> 
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