RE: "Load next volume" message getting cancelled

Dan,

I don't know when you would want to use *DFT. It means that every message
automatically gets answered with its default reply. 

That seems kind of dangerous to me.

Albert York     



        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Bale, Dan [SMTP:D.Bale@handleman.com]
        Sent:   Monday, August 13, 2001 11:08 AM
        To:     midrange-l@midrange.com
        Subject:        RE: "Load next volume" message getting cancelled

        O.K., looks like I'm about to get an education today.  QSYSOPR's
delivery mode *IS* set to *DFT on this box, but is *HOLD on all of our other
six AS/400s.  So, I changed it to *HOLD. 

        Is *DFT the "lazy man's" system operator?  Can I presume that *HOLD
is the default delivery mode for QSYSOPR? 

        Since this affects everything that pops up on QSYSOPR, what impact
will this change have that I should be aware of?  I'm guessing not much,
since all of our other boxes run the same applications and there are no
issues that I'm aware of.  Maybe messages that used to be answered
automatically no longer are?

        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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        -----Original Message----- 
        From:   York, Albert [SMTP:albert.york@nissan-usa.com] 
        Sent:   Monday, August 13, 2001 1:02 PM 
        To:     'midrange-l@midrange.com' 
        Subject:        RE: "Load next volume" message getting cancelled 

        Dan, 

        A similar thing happened to me once with printer messages. It drove
me crazy 
        (admittedly a short trip) before I found out the QSYSOPR message
queue 
        delivery mode had been changed  to *DFT somehow. 
          
        Albert York     


                -----Original Message----- 
                From:   Bale, Dan [SMTP:D.Bale@handleman.com] 
                Sent:   Monday, August 13, 2001 9:24 AM 
                To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com 
                Subject:        "Load next volume" message getting cancelled


                Note before answering the question:  I have checked the
system reply 
                list! 

                I have a backup running at one of my AS/400 sites that is
beginning 
        to 
                need a second tape.  I am specifying the two volume IDs,
i.e. 
                VOL('FRI1W1' 'FRI2W1') , but when message CPA4089 appears to
tell me 
                that I need to "Load volume FRI2W1 on device TAP03. (C G)",
it gets 
                responded to automatically by the system with a 'C'
response. 

                Immediately following the auto 'C' response, is a message
CPF5104 
                "Cancel reply received for message CPA4089.  Either a cancel
reply 
        was 
                received from the operator or the program, or the system
used a 
        default 
                reply..." 

                This all occurred in the space of a second and it happened
at 3:00 
        in 
                the morning when the building is empty, so I've ruled out
someone 
                pressing the magic key.  I looked in the system reply list,
and 
        CPA4089 
                is NOT there.  I checked both the job log and program source
for 
        CPA4089 
                being monitored, either by a global MONMSG or "local"
MONMSG, and 
                there's nothing there.  The program has no global MONMSGs,
and their 
        is 
                no MONMSG on the command that issued the request for the
next 
        volume. 

                Where else can I look? 

                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.)