Re: IFS file copies failing

["Peter Dow" <pcdow@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Lou,

It's late so the old grey matter is fizzling out, but here are some random
thoughts on things to look at:

Any messages in the job log? In QSYSOPR? In QSYSMSG? And how full is the
system? Are they over the storage threshhold? Is QDLS affected by the
storage threshhold? I guess this one popped into my head because SNADS quits
working at that point.

Peter Dow
Dow Software Services, Inc.
909 425-0194 voice
909 425-0196 fax


----- Original Message -----
From: "Lou Schmaus" <lschmaus@link400.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 9:22 PM
Subject: IFS file copies failing


> One of our customers has a recent problem copying files from an NT Server
to
> the IFS. This is an unattended PC that has worked flawlessly for the last
> year, up until the last two weeks.
>
> The PC dials into their retail stores every night, and downloads the daily
> sales information. Then it copies the files to a mapped drive on the
AS/400,
> which is shared by Netserver. The canned software on the AS/400 requires
the
> files to be in a folder in QDLS. The PC just sits in it's corner in the
> computer room, nobody touches it except to dust off the monitor
> occasionally. Up until the past two weeks.
>
> What happens, with no apparent pattern, is that the copy to the shared
drive
> fails with a 'session canceled' message on occasion. A zero-byte file is
> left in the folder, which I can't even delete without canceling QSERVER
> subsystem. Perhaps 9 or 10 out of 12 file transfers a night complete fine,
> but one or two fail. The command that copies the file is a simple 'copy
> c:\dir\file.txt i:\dir\file.txt' in a batch file. I can view the
directory,
> but any to copy the file from the command line end with a 'error occurred,
> session canceled' message.
>
> The AS/400 is a 170 at V4r4. They are not particularly current on
PTF's(they
> are firm believers in 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it'). The AS/400 and
the
> PC were recently moved to a new location(but not in the time frame of when
> the problem started). Nothing was changed on either the PC or the AS/400,
> basically they were powered down, moved, and powered back up. Everyone
> swears up and down that nothing was touched on the PC.
>
> I'm at a loss as to what could be happening, or how to fix it. Any
> suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Lou Schmaus
> CCA, Inc.
> lschmaus@link400.com
>
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