Re: SNA failure

["Urbanek, Marty" <Marty_Urbanek@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ed

You might also try DSPMSG QSYSMSG to look for comm failure messages. Your
system may or may not have this msgq defined.

If you do find an SNA sense code, a good tool for determining its meaning is
the IBM getsense utility, which appears to be available at the bottom of
this page:
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/clientaccess/cadownld.htm

-Marty

p.s. sorry about previous post with wrong subject

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From: "Patrick Townsend" <patownsend@patownsend.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Subject: Re: SNA failure
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 15:34:50 -0700
Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com

Ed,

There are two places you might look:

1) In QSYSOPR. If you find APPC failure messages take a look at the second
level text. You might find sense data (8 bytes of hex values) or error codes
(4 byte hex values). If you send it up I'll try to intepret the values.

2) In the system LOG. Use DSPLOG and look for two messages right together.
One will be a failure message (Controller BlahBlah failed...), and one will
be a recovery message (Recovery in progress...). Put the cursor on the
Recovery message and press Help. The second level text normally has pretty
useful SNA and/or link diagnostic information.

Patrick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Chabot" <echabot@marlinfirearms.com>
To: "MIDRANGE-L@midrange. com" <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 11:35 AM
Subject: SNA failure


> Message ID . . . . . . :   CPF9362       Severity . . . . . . . :   20
> Does anyone know where to find a list of reason codes for APPC failures?
We
> are using SNA over TCP/IP to connect to a Perle 494 controller at another
> site.  We started getting this message last Thursday and we got it again
on
> Saturday.  This whole communications thing is new to us and we aren't sure
> where to start looking.  Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Message type . . . . . :   Diagnostic
> Date sent  . . . . . . :   10/13/01      Time sent  . . . . . . :
00:20:06
>
> Message . . . . :   Session ended on device PRT04HR because of an APPC
> session
>   failure on device C494E01.
> Cause . . . . . :   The remote workstation device PRT04HR was using
advanced
>   program-to-program communications (APPC) device C494E01 for
> communications.
>   The current session for the remote workstation device was ended due to
an
>   APPC session failure. The reason code is X'E01A'.
> Recovery  . . . :   Automatic recovery is in progress. If the problem
>   persists, check for related messages in the system operator message
queue
>   using the Display Message command (DSPMSG), the job log of the QLUS
>   subsystem using the Display Subsystem command (DSPSBS), and in the job
log
>   of the subsystem that handles requests that come from device C494E01
using
>   the Display Subsystem command (DSPSBS). If any errors are indicated,
> attempt
>   the recovery suggested by those messages.
>  Technical description . . . . . . . . :   Some reason codes and their
>    associated meanings are:
>      400A -- APPC Device Description was varied off
>      C00B -- Internal failure which caused partial damage
>      E015-E01A, -- SNA Failure
>      E020-E022, -- Hardware Failure
>
>
> Ed Chabot
> The Marlin Firearms Company
> 100 Kenna Drive
> North Haven, CT 06473
> (203)985-3254