Re: Problem on a 9406-620 V4R1M0 and Resource Names "lost" -- MIDRANGE-L

That sounds scary.

Carl Galgano
EDI Consulting Services, Inc.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Lewis <CLEWIS@IQUEST.NET>
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Friday, August 07, 1998 5:31 PM
Subject: Problem on a 9406-620 V4R1M0 and Resource Names "lost"


|Hi Folks,
|
|Had a weird one this morning. I'm at a new shop and the AS/400 here will
|be replacing a NCR/Unix box. I'm trying to get the AS/400 setup for
|"prime time". Have the daily backups in place and last night I thought
|I'd run a test IPL. I came in this morning and it appeared that all was
|well until I started checking around. CTL02 was vary on pending and
|varying it off and back on did nothing. I noticed that in QSYSOPR it was
|saying "Line resource name CMN0x not found" (the x being a number and 4
|messages in total). Then I noticed that our 9427 tape unit was not
|available. I checked out WRKHDWRSC *CMN and saw the Comm Ports not
|operational and ditto for the 2809 controlling them.  QSYSOPR showed NO
|errors (other than the Line resource name not found), WRKPRB had NO
|problems of ANY kind and the only errors under service tool were 6 5294
|"BUFF" errors all at the SAME time earlier in the morning... I tried
|another IPL and got the same thing.
|
|I called Rochester and the guy had me check under Logical Hardware
|Resources on System Bus under SST and we had the System Bus, Multiple
|Function IOP 9164-001 and Multiple Function IOP 2809-001 and System Bus
|again and that was it. I'm new here and had not gotten around to
|documenting what was what, etc. (came from a 530 & 500 shop...) so I
|wasn't sure what it should show (Am NOW !!! <BG>). I hit an F10 for
|"Non-reporting resource" and a list came up with a 2809 on it, a bunch
|of CMN's and the tape drive. He said it was OK to blow those away and I
|said "are you SURE" and he said yes and I did. He then had me try an I/O
|IPL for the 2809 and that started and after 10 minutes, he said he would
|get a CE on-site to CONFIRM the configuration, etc. because it
|shoulldn't take that long.
|
|The CE got here and the reset was still going (not) after about 2 hours
|at this point. Per Rochester I did an ENDJOB on the job which was
|running on the console, did an ENDJOBABN and eventually we had to force
|power down. We came up in DST and everything looked OK. We came on up
|and we had to tell the system what Card Position the CMN and Tape Unit
|were on (it had renamed them and dropped/detached the real ones...) and
|all is fine now.
|
|NO word on what happened. The guy in Rochester said they HAD seen
|something similar on V4R2 and there was a PTF (the system was "randomly"
|renaming Resources... WHAT a nightmare) but nothing for V4R1...
|
|ANYBODY heard of this or had this happen ? WHAT in the WORLD would/could
|cause it ?
|
|I NOW know that we have TWO 2809's - one in the main unit and one in the
|expansion unit...
|
|Thanks,
|
|Chuck
|
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