Re: Bizarre Abnormal System End

[Chuck Lewis <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

That is INCREDIBLE Booth :-)

Sounds like someone would almost have to PROGRAM something that dumb <BG>

Let's see:

PGM

CHKCDDRV
something loaded=yes
SYSRUNOK
ELSE
MESSUPSYS
ENDPGM

;-)

Chuck


boothm@earth.goddard.edu wrote:

> Dean, we had behavior similar to this on a box delivered in October 1998.
> In the end we were instructed to keep a CD in the CD-ROM drawer until a
> fix was established.  I understood that problem to be the AS/400 was
> constantly checking the CD-ROM drawer to see if there was a CD, and if
> there was no CD there would be  memory leak, causing a really ungraceful
> collapse.
>
> I can't believe these are the same problem, but that was our experience.
> _______________________
> Booth Martin
> boothm@earth.goddard.edu
> http://www.spy.net/~booth
> _______________________
>
> DAsmussen@aol.com
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> 12/14/1999 02:17 PM
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>
> Hey Folks,
>
> We had a bizarre abnormal system end today, and I was wondering if anyone
> had
> any ideas.  Everyone was just working along on our 620 running V4R2 (one
> cum
> back from current, but several APAR's installed), when the machine just
> IPL'd
> itself!  No indication of any problem other than abnormal system end in
> either QHST or WRKPRB.  The IPL indicated that an SRC code was sent after
> an
> abnormal system end but, since the system restarted automatically, the SRC
>
> code wasn't seen by anyone before it cleared out.  Anybody seen this
> behavior
> before?
>
> TIA,
>
> Dean Asmussen
> Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
> Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
> E-mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com
>
> "The word impossible is not in my dictionary." -- Napoleon Bonaparte
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