RE: Qbatch won't end.

["Allen, Stuart" <sallen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

not sure what could have caused it to hang, but 10 minutes after doing an
ENDJOB *IMMED you could have done an ENDJOBABN to forcibly end the job
without having to power down.

Regards,
Stuart
                                     
Stuart Allen
European Systems Analyst
Fellowes

mailto:sallen@fellowes.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arnold, Robert [SMTP:RMArnold@hpproducts.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 10:20 AM
> To:   'Midrange-l@midrange.com'
> Subject:      Qbatch won't end.
> 
> We had an interesting situation occur last evening.  Durring month end
> close, we had a backup job hang in qbatch.  My operator performed an end
> with *IMMED.  The job would not terminate.  Rather than seek assistance,
> the
> operator then ended Qbatch *immed.  At that point Qbatch was hung for
> several hours.  Being month end, time is somewhat of the essence, a
> controlled powerdown *immed restart *yes was then performed.  Every thing
> but Qbatch and the job in question was ended prior to the poerdown.  Out
> of
> all this I have two questions, 1 - what should have been done to terminate
> the job that was not ending? (No job log was being produced nor was there
> any run time.  2 - what would cause a job to hang like that?  (We harrass
> the NT guy here for the instability from Microsoft on a PC touting the
> very
> stable 400 platform) 
> 
> Any assistance and or guidance would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> We're running a 720 with 4.4.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Bob
>  
> 
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