Re: ENDJOBABN & applying PTF's

[Chuck Lewis <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

So can they get away with changing QABNORMSW or does that cause the system
to skip some important cleanup or something at the next IPL ?

Chuck

"Al Barsa, Jr." wrote:

> At 03:18 PM 12/20/1999 -0800, you wrote:
> >We had to use the ENDJOBABN (End Job Abnormal) command to kill a
> >misbehaving job.  We are going to IPL (powerdown restart=*yes) the system
> >this weekend to apply some PTF's.
> >
> >My question:  Will PTF's apply after using the ENDJOBABN?  I seem to
> >remember the need to do one normal IPL after using ENDJOBABN, before PTF's
> >could be applied.  I've looked at documentation for the ENDJOBABN and
> >applying PTF's and there is no mention or warning about ENDJOBABN.   Does
> >anyone know if ENDJOBABN has any impact on applying PTF's any longer?
> PTFs will not apply is the system value QABNORMSW is '1'.  Using ENDJOBABN
> will always cause an IPL to indicate that the previous termination of
> OS/400 is abnormal.
>
> Al
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