Re: New AS-400 Administrator

[Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mostly indicative of a PC type job using the file.  Try looking at the 
joblog of the QSERVER job.  Often it will indicate which PC is glomming 
on to the file.  Options include:
1)  Ending subsystem QSERVER prior to the backup.
2)  Using WRKOBJLCK, or an API, and cancelling the exact program prior to 
the backup.
3)  Using save-while-active.  But then, to use save-while-active you should 
be doing journalling and a host of other complexity.
4)  Not backup the data
5)  Put a MONMSG in there after the SAV... command and skip saving the 
particular locked files.
6)  Other creative opportunities

As far as option 5, we had a division that did that.  I asked them if I 
could delete their item master.  After all, it was only getting backed up
every 8 weeks when we bring the system down in a restricted state.  And 
since we didn't care if it got backed up then the data must be expendable, 
right?

We're kinda big on the endsbs approach.  Kinda tricky to sign on to a 
remote system when QINTER is down.  Thank God for SBMRMTCMD and STRSBS 
QINTER.  I know, we could assign a special device to some strange subsystem.  
But the backup only blows occasionally when a tape fries.





luc.lafontan@bbc.co.uk on 01/14/2000 01:39:56 PM
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I have an AS-400 9406, 600 running V42. My backups are not completing so I
have run them to log and found that I have 12 diagnostic messages resulting
from six errors. 

The six errors are all very similar and have to do with a specific job -
043617/QPGMR/QSERVER

The actual message reads:
-MESSAGE "Cannot allocate object for file (see list of the six files below)


in QUS



RSYS
-CAUSE "



The save operation was not performed for member (file name) in library
QUSRSYS type *FILE, because it is allocated by job 043617/QPGMR/QSERVER.
Recovery...Try the request again when the object is avalable.

Can anyone offer some in



sight before calling IBM pay support



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