Re: System Reply gone Bizzark ??? !!!

Chuck Lewis <CLEWIS@IQUEST.NET> wrote:

>...this only happens occassionaly and the trend SEEMS to be betwen
>5:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. although that might NOT be carved in stone. During
the
>day no one is normally signed on as QSYSOPR so that message queue is
>"unallocated" just as it would be at night when no one is here (I'm TRYING
to
>think of EVERYTHING <BG>) !

Chuck,

I hope I'm not sending you up a blind alley, but you can check the delivery
status of the queue simply by running DSPMSG QSYSOPR. At intermediate
assistance level it's shown at the top right of the screen, at basic level
you need to do F22 (display list details) to see it. If you want to keep
checking during the night you could write a program to collect the
information using the QMHRMQAT API (Retrieve non-program message queue
attributes) and schedule it to run, say, every hour.

It may be that you have someone at the site who occasionally puts the queue
into break mode for whatever reason and then releases it by changing the
delivery to default instead of hold. Possibly at a previous site this was
how they had been trained to do it because that was the standard. You may
also have a rogue program that does something similar.

First establish whether or not the problem is caused by the queue going
into default mode. If it is, then you can start tracking down the culprit.
For example, you could reduce the authority to the queue so that only the
profiles that really need it have object management, and the remaining
profiles have command auditing turned on. Then you can start checking the
audit journal.

HTH

Dave Kahn, ABB Steward Ltd.


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