Re: Help w/ AS/400 power crash -- MIDRANGE-L

Yes, I thought of that after I sent my original post.

After glazing my eyes through page after page of useless information, I found
the crash.  It occurred on Monday, not on Friday last week!  I never imagined
there were so many FTP jobs running on our system!

The only thing that caught my eye was the fact that system log reported about
30 files in QSYS & QUSRSYS were in use at the time of the abend.  One of our
user files was also in use at the time.  But no messages reporting whether
anything was damaged.  Other than the device descriptions.  Fortunately, the
system appeared to be unused at the time of the crash, no one signed on,
several batch FTP jobs running, etc.

Someone else mentioned running RCLSTG.  Would that show up in the system log
if it had been run?

Too bad there isn't better filtering available on the DSPLOG command, like to
EXCLUDE certain message IDs.  Is there an API available to read through the
system log, with the goal of being able to use F1 to get at second-level
message text?

Dan Bale
IT - AS/400
Handleman Company
248-362-4400  Ext. 4952
D.Bale@Handleman.com
  Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur.
  (Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.)

-------------------------- Original Message --------------------------
Dan,

Any clues left via DSPLOG QHST ?

Neil Palmer      DPS Data Processing Services Canada Ltd.
50 Acadia Avenue, Ste.102                   AS/400~~~~~
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D.BALE@handleman.com
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2001/04/11 16:59
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        Subject:        Help w/ AS/400 power crash


One of our overseas AS/400s suffered a power-outage crash.  It was hooked
up
to the UPS, but the UPS was apparently switched to "bypass" mode.
Someone's
head may roll for this.  (Not my decision.)

Once it was brought back up, several of our device descriptions were lost,
and
auto-config had to be turned on briefly to get everything back up in a
pinch.

It raises the question for me:  What else is damaged out there?  The power
outage occurred 5 days ago, and we've been running fine (as far as I
know).
What should I be looking for?  For some reason, the *SYSOPR message queue
was
somehow cleared several hours ago, so I don't know how to look for
problems
that would have been identified in there.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Dan Bale
IT - AS/400
Handleman Company
248-362-4400  Ext. 4952
D.Bale@Handleman.com
  Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur.
  (Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.)
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