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Yep, 'Bama counts, I've gottin mine by way of Miss'ssippi, South Caroliny and Geogrgah (not bad for an ex yankee from Ohia!!! Mark Allen I.S. Manager Wilkes Telephone & Electric A Dycom Company Phone: (706) 678-9565 Email: allenmark@nu-z.net http://www.nu-z.net :-----Original Message----- :From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com :[mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com] On Behalf Of Anne Lucas :Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 4:32 PM :To: midrange-l@midrange.com :Subject: Re: MIDRANGE-L digest, Vol 1 #1681 - 11 msgs : : :Mark, that southern charm cums frum Birmingham, Alabama!! :rat 'chere!!! :... 'course some days that Steel Magnolia shows up :} : :************ :Have a great day! and .... Enthusiasm is like a ripple in the :water... It spreads! : : :Anne C. 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RE: Customer problems (Mark Allen) : 2. RE: qzshsystem api (David Morris) : 3. Re: MIDRANGE-L digest, Vol 1 #1679 - 10 msgs (Vernon Hamberg) : 4. RE: Need to scan files (Vernon Hamberg) : 5. RE: Need to scan files (Vernon Hamberg) : 6. CAE - Windows XP (Rodriguez, Jose Amable) : 7. RE: qzshsystem api (Vernon Hamberg) : 8. Re: RE: RE: ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! (Mike Naughton) : 9. RE: qzshsystem api (David Morris) : 10. Fw: Re: Huge x86 servers vs. Alpha, SPARC, Power{3/4} (Adam :Lang) : 11. Re: Why my system WAS so sluggish! (Philipp Rusch) : :--__--__-- : :Message: 1 :Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 13:00:52 -0500 :From: Mark Allen <allenmark@nu-z.net> :Subject: RE: Customer problems :To: midrange-l@midrange.com :Organization: Wilkes Telephone and Electric :Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com : :Southern charm, where'd you get that Anne, GA, MS, SC, NC??? : :Mark Allen :I.S. Manager :Wilkes Telephone & Electric :A Dycom Company :Phone: (706) 678-9565 :Email: allenmark@nu-z.net :http://www.nu-z.net : : : : ::-----Original Message----- ::From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com ::[mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com] On Behalf Of BOBC@ri-net.com ::Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 12:46 PM ::To: midrange-l@midrange.com ::Subject: Re: Customer problems :: :: :: ::Anne, :: ::I totally love you! You are magnificient. Must be that ::southern charm... :: ::Bob Cancilla ::Republic Indemnity Company of America ::(818)382-1023 :: :: :: :: :: "Anne Lucas" :: <alucas@us.ibm.com> To: :: Sent by: cc: :: midrange-l-admin@mi Subject: ::Customer problems :: drange.com :: :: :: 04/05/2002 08:45 AM :: Please respond to :: midrange-l :: :: :: :: :: :: ::The iSeries Customer Satisfaction team in Rochester worked :with me to :create a "hot line" just for the iSeries Nation :community. :This is not :for technical support problems, but :for issues such as those I :read about yesterday and today :where you can't get someone to :help with pricing, ::upgrades, sales, you want to buy, no one will take your :money, etc.!! :: ::When you complete the form on this page it goes immediately :to :a member of this Customer Satisfaction team ... they :respond :very quickly ... sometimes within the hour the have a :problem solved!! :: ::Here's the url ..... am moving it back to the front page of ::the home page .... ::http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/nation/contact/hot :line_info.html : : : :Also, sometimes I monitor all the listservers, other times I :depend on others to send me problems .... so if in doubt, :please forward any issues to me .... and I'll do my very best :to resolve.... and figure out how to avoid the : :Thank you!! : :************ :Have a great day! and .... Enthusiasm is like a ripple in the :water... It spreads! : : :Anne C. Lucas, Project Exec, iSeries Nation and iSeries :Marketing - www.ibm.com/eserver/nation1 205/823-4831 T/L :537-9968, eFax: 603-687-8053, 800/223-3907 Pager : :Admin Assist: Alice Sebastiano Telephone: (914) 642-4109, tie line :224-4109 Fax: (914) 642-6976, tie line 224-6976 : :_______________________________________________ :This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) :mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com :To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, :visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l :or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com :Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives :at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. : : : : :_______________________________________________ :This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) :mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com :To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, :visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l :or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com :Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives :at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. : : : : :--__--__-- : :Message: 2 :Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 11:00:40 -0700 :From: "David Morris" <David.Morris@plumcreek.com> :To: <midrange-l@midrange.com> :Subject: RE: qzshsystem api :Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com : :Joe, : :I have indeed tried appending a x'00' as well as :specifying options(*string). I really wish the :message would tell me what it is trying to run. :My best guess is that the command needs to be :passed as ASCII. I hate to write a wrapper :for the translation API only to find out it :is something else. : :Thanks, : :David Morris : :>>> joepluta@PlutaBrothers.com 04/05/02 10:37 AM >>> :> From: Joel Fritz :> :> Does anyone have any experience with QzshSystem()? I was playing :around :> with it yesterday and it worked but it didn't. Using the prototype :> below, I passed in a command string, the call executed :> successfully--well, it returned 7--and nothing happend. I tried :> sending a directory listing :to a :> file and calling a program that created a small text file. :> :> Dqzhsystem pr 10i 0 extproc('QzshSystem') :> D cmdstring * value options(*string) : :I haven't tried it, but I know Unix commands like nulls at the :end. Did you make sure to append a null (x'00') at the end of :your command string? : :Joe : : :_______________________________________________ :This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) :mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com :To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, :visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l :or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com :Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives :at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. : : : :--__--__-- : :Message: 3 :Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 12:11:19 -0600 :To: midrange-l@midrange.com :From: Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@attbi.com> :Subject: Re: MIDRANGE-L digest, Vol 1 #1679 - 10 msgs :Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com : :Is it appropriate to send InfoCenter issues through this channel? : :BTW, thanks for your efforts. : :At 11:49 AM 4/5/02 -0600, you wrote: :>Dare, I'll do my very best! .... perhaps we can get to the root cause :>and solve that! :> :>********************* :>Message: 6 :>From: "Dare @ Work" <oludare@ix.netcom.com> :>To: <midrange-l@midrange.com> :>Subject: Re: Customer problems :>Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 11:53:26 -0500 :>Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com :> :>Great Anne, :> :>I hope you will be able to handle the barrage of messages you will be :>receiving. There are a lot of dissatisfied IBM customers here on the :>list and out there. :> :> :>************ :>Have a great day! and .... Enthusiasm is like a ripple in the :water... :>It spreads! :> :> :>Anne C. Lucas, Project Exec, iSeries Nation and iSeries Marketing - :>www.ibm.com/eserver/nation1 205/823-4831 T/L 537-9968, eFax: :>603-687-8053, 800/223-3907 Pager :> :>Admin Assist: Alice Sebastiano Telephone: (914) 642-4109, tie line :>224-4109 Fax: (914) 642-6976, tie line 224-6976 :> :>_______________________________________________ :>This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing :list :>To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com :>To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, :>visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l :>or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com :>Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives :>at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. : : :--__--__-- : :Message: 4 :Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 12:16:14 -0600 :To: midrange-l@midrange.com :From: Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@attbi.com> :Subject: RE: Need to scan files :Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com : :FYI, we show QShell interpreter as opt 30 of 5722SS1, :*COMPATIBLE. CUM level is 2036, so it's not actually at latest level. : :At 12:56 PM 4/5/02 -0500, you wrote: :>Well Vernon, I guess you're just "special" ;-) :> :>I have tried this on both our Production and Test boxes. :They're both a :>V5R1 but at different CUM levels (Test box is the most :current - latest :>CUM). :> :>Think I'll wait till the Systems Programmer comes back :>on Monday so I can get the CUM levels for both machines :>and then will give IBM tech support a call. :> :>This is really strange. BTW my grep syntax is identical :>to yours - as would be expected. :> :>Terry :> :> :> > -----Original Message----- :> > From: Vernon Hamberg [mailto:vhamberg@attbi.com] :> > Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 12:03 PM :> > To: midrange-l@midrange.com :> > Subject: RE: Need to scan files :> > :> > :> > By listing multiple members. I tried wildcards, but no good. Then :> > ran grep with -h flag to get help text. Got syntax. :> > :> > I'm at v5r1. Have no idea why Terry's attempts are not working. :> > :> > Here's a listing of what I did, using F6: :> > :> > $ :> > :> > pwd :> > :> > /Vern :> > :> > $ :> > :> > cd :> > /qsys.lib/vern.lib/splf.file :> > $ :> > :> > ls :> > :> > CMPEXDFN.MBR PEXDFN.MBR :> > :> > $ :> > :> > tail :> > pexdfn.mbr :> > *ALL :> > :> > Selected MI Complex :> > Instructions: :> > *NONE :> > :> > Selected :> > Events: :> > Category : TRCTYPE - Command Trace :> > Types :> > SLTEVT - :> > :> > Category : BASEVT - Base :> > Events :> > PMCO PMCO - Performance :> > Measurement Counter :> > Overflow :> > Category : DSKSVREVT - Dasd Server :> > Events :> > USER SRV - Service :> > :> > $ :> > :> > tail :> > *.mbr :> > :> > tail: 001-0023 Error found opening file *.mbr. No such path or :> > directory. $ :> > :> > grep :> > -h :> > :> > grep: 001-3010 usage: grep [-E|-F] [-c|-l|-q] [-ihnsvwxy] [-e :> > pattern_list] [-f pattern_file] [pattern] [file ...] :> > $ :> > :> > grep "PMCP" :> > *.mbr :> > :> > grep: 001-0023 Error found opening file *.mbr. No such path or :> > directory. $ :> > :> > ls :> > :> > CMPEXDFN.MBR PEXDFN.MBR :> > :> > $ :> > :> > grep "PMCP" cmpexdfn.mbr :> > pexdfn.mbr :> > :> > $ :> > :> > grep "PMCO" cmpexdfn.mbr :> > pexdfn.mbr :> > :> > cmpexdfn.mbr:I :> > - =C0 8BASEVT =F7 ! ! :> > PMCO I :> > =C0 \ D - =C0 BA :> > VT 0 ! ! PMC : 0000007 :> > 0000007 :> > pexdfn.mbr: PMCO PMCO - :> > Performance Measurement :> > Counter Overflow :> > pexdfn.mbr: PMCO PMCO - :> > Performance Measurement :> > Counter Overflow :> > pexdfn.mbr: PMCO PMCO - :> > Performance Measurement :> > Counter Overflow :> > $ :> > :>_______________________________________________ :>This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion :(MIDRANGE-L) mailing :>lis := :t :>To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com :>To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, :>visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l :>or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com :>Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives :>at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. : : :--__--__-- : :Message: 5 :Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 12:18:47 -0600 :To: midrange-l@midrange.com :From: Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@attbi.com> :Subject: RE: Need to scan files :Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com : :To repeat, I've got it going on both source and data. Strrrrange. : :At 07:45 AM 4/5/02 -0500, you wrote: :>This is a multipart message in MIME format. :>-- :>[ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] :>Interesting. I tried it here and got the same results as :you. Nix on :>the data pf's, but ok on the source pf's. :> :>I know very little about Unix. So this command will not :search through :>a directory? Thus no ability to search through all the members is a :>set of files. Therefore it is probably not worth the fight :to get IBM :>to have this working on data pf's. :> :>Rob Berendt :>-- :>"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary :>safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin :> :> :> :> :>Winchester Terry <terry.winchester@raymondcorp.com> :>Sent by: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com :>04/05/2002 06:49 AM :>Please respond to midrange-l :> :> :> To: "'midrange-l@midrange.com'" <midrange-l@midrange.com> :> cc: :> Fax to: :> Subject: RE: Need to scan files :> :> :> > -----Original Message----- :> > From: Vernon Hamberg [mailto:vhamberg@attbi.com] :> > Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 6:40 PM :> > To: midrange-l@midrange.com :> > Subject: RE: Need to scan files :> > :> > :> > Don't have QSHELL installed on this system. Have you tried :extending :> > the path to the member? :> :>It appears to work on *source* physical files, but not with regular :>physical files. :> :> > A file is treated like a directory, the member is the :> > real data part. :> :>The file=directory theory is interesting: :> :>cd DSIPICKS.FILE :>$ :>ls :>DSIPICKS.MBR :>$ :>tail DSIPICKS.MBR :> :>tail: 001-0023 Error found opening file DSIPICKS.MBR. Operation not :>supported. :> :>Also got the same error for the grep command. :> :>On the bright side, maybe it will work in V5R2 ;-) :> :>Terry :> :> :>_______________________________________________ :>This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion :(MIDRANGE-L) mailing :>list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com :>To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, :>visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l :>or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com :>Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives :>at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. :> :> :> :>_______________________________________________ :>This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing :list :>To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com :>To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, :>visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l :>or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com :>Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives :>at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. : : :--__--__-- : :Message: 6 :From: "Rodriguez, Jose Amable" <jarodriguez@grupom.com.do> :To: midrange-l@midrange.com :Subject: CAE - Windows XP :Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 14:16:29 -0400 :Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com : :Hello, : : Wondering if anyone has overcome the issue of the :need to have Administrative rights in Windows XP to be able to :use Client Access Express V5R1 ???? : : :Thanks in advance.... : :--__--__-- : :Message: 7 :Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 12:30:36 -0600 :To: midrange-l@midrange.com :From: Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@attbi.com> :Subject: RE: qzshsystem api :Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com : : From the text on the API, it seems it is running qsh with the :command you give it. qsh works with EBCDIC, so that should not :be the problem. But we've all been shoulded on, right? : :It does mention that the return value is from waitpid(). It's :actually the second parameter on that API. There are a number :of macros (C-type) in member WAIT of file SYS in QSYSINC. How :are you at converting C macros to RPG? Heh! Let me know if :you need help there. They're binary ANDs of the value with some masks. : :You might try the C mailing list. : :At 11:00 AM 4/5/02 -0700, you wrote: :>Joe, :> :>I have indeed tried appending a x'00' as well as :>specifying options(*string). I really wish the :>message would tell me what it is trying to run. :>My best guess is that the command needs to be :>passed as ASCII. I hate to write a wrapper :>for the translation API only to find out it :>is something else. :> :>Thanks, :> :>David Morris :> :> >>> joepluta@PlutaBrothers.com 04/05/02 10:37 AM >>> :> > From: Joel Fritz :> > :> > Does anyone have any experience with QzshSystem()? I was playing :>around :> > with it yesterday and it worked but it didn't. Using the :prototype :> > below, I passed in a command string, the call executed :> > successfully--well, it returned 7--and nothing happend. I tried :> > sending a directory listing :>to a :> > file and calling a program that created a small text file. :> > :> > Dqzhsystem pr 10i 0 extproc('QzshSystem') :> > D cmdstring * value options(*string) :> :>I haven't tried it, but I know Unix commands like nulls at the end. :>Did you make sure to append a null (x'00') at the end of your command :>string? :> :>Joe :> :> :>_______________________________________________ :>This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion :(MIDRANGE-L) mailing :>list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com :>To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, :>visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l :>or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com :>Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives :>at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. :> :> :>_______________________________________________ :>This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing :list :>To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com :>To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, :>visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l :>or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com :>Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives :>at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. : : :--__--__-- : :Message: 8 :Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 13:38:52 -0500 :Subject: Re: RE: RE: ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! :To: midrange-l@midrange.com :From: "Mike Naughton" <mnaughton@juddwire.com> :Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com : :Actually, my comment was meant tongue-in-cheek -- the :situation that Joe was describing just seemed so . . . . :Dilbertish? . . . . that I had to laugh (spent last night at a :school building presentation, so right now I'm looking for :laughs any place I can find them :-) : :Of course, Joe has explained that things weren't quite as :surreal as I thought they were . . . . : :midrange-l@midrange.com writes: :> I'm not sure :>whether you're being tongue-in-cheek or not, but you're right. : : :Mike Naughton :Senior Programmer/Analyst :Judd Wire, Inc. :124 Turnpike Road :Turners Falls, MA 01376 :413-863-4357 x444 :mnaughton@juddwire.com : : :--__--__-- : :Message: 9 :Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 11:51:47 -0700 :From: "David Morris" <David.Morris@plumcreek.com> :To: <midrange-l@midrange.com> :Subject: RE: qzshsystem api :Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com : :Vern, : :I did try translating the string to ASCII, :no go. I will look at WAIT to see if it :brings out any clues. : :Thanks, : :David Morris : : :>>> vhamberg@attbi.com 04/05/02 11:43 AM >>> : From the text on the API, it seems it is running qsh with the :command you give it. qsh works with EBCDIC, so that should not :be the problem. But we've all been shoulded on, right? : :It does mention that the return value is from waitpid(). It's :actually the second parameter on that API. There are a number :of macros (C-type) in member WAIT of file SYS in QSYSINC. How :are you at converting C macros to RPG? Heh! Let me know if :you need help there. They're binary ANDs of the value with some masks. : :You might try the C mailing list. : :At 11:00 AM 4/5/02 -0700, you wrote: :>Joe, :> :>I have indeed tried appending a x'00' as well as :>specifying options(*string). I really wish the :>message would tell me what it is trying to run. :>My best guess is that the command needs to be :>passed as ASCII. I hate to write a wrapper :>for the translation API only to find out it :>is something else. :> :>Thanks, :> :>David Morris : : :--__--__-- : :Message: 10 :From: "Adam Lang" <aalang@rutgersinsurance.com> :To: <midrange-l@midrange.com> :Subject: Fw: Re: Huge x86 servers vs. Alpha, SPARC, Power{3/4} :Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 13:47:43 -0500 :Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com : :Ack! : :This was a message on a Linux server group I am on. : :The guy was asking for ideas on where to go for a Linux :server. It would be running a database ... they were speced :out with Dell for about $100K. He actually wanted RISC as :opposed to x86. : :I told him go for the AS/400 running Linux. : :IBM didn't return his calls. : :Adam Lang :Systems Engineer :Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company http://www.rutgersinsurance.com :----- Original Message ----- :From: "JW" <jw@centraltexasit.com> :To: <SERVER-LINUX@LISTS.NETSPACE.ORG> :Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 1:43 PM :Subject: Re: Huge x86 servers vs. Alpha, SPARC, Power{3/4} : : :> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- :> Hash: SHA1 :> :> :> AL >Buy an AS/400 and run Linux on it. :> AL > :> AL >You'll have RISC architecture. :> AL > :> AL >You'll have the BEST hardware for DB/file performance. :> AL > :> AL >It's in your price range. :> AL > :> AL >You'll be cool. :> :> Shoulda, Coulda Woulda.... :> but IBM failed to return 2 phone calls. :> Compaq (Alpha) was quite snobby over the phone, and didn't :have exatly :what we wanted :> (we would have had to go higher or lower). :> :> Sun OTHO treaded us very nicely (as did Dell, of course) and it looks :like :we're going to get a Sun Fire v880 with 4 CPUs. :> :> I was actually rooting for IBM first, Alpha second, SUn 3rd, but ho :> well, :that's life. :> :> It's all but purchased. Don't think we'll put Linux on it, at least :> not :right now. :> :> Too bad. I hear administering Solaris isn't fun. Bettern tha :nAdministering WINNT though :-) :> :> :> :> :> - -- :> :> - ---------------------------------------------------- :> Jonathan Wilson :> System Administrator :> Clickpatrol.com :> Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com :> :> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- :> Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) :> Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org :> :> iD8DBQE8rfBtW3F87Q8SQQARAoRKAJ4x0BL7n2qyskrgijxXBVwhyzfSPQCbBoje :> 9Nq3/G41e1O2hK4A2w2Rfho= :> =Jfuu :> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- :> :> :> :> NetSpace LISTSERV(R) software donated by L-Soft, Inc. :http://www.lsoft.com :> : : : : :--__--__-- : :Message: 11 :Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 20:57:51 +0200 :From: Philipp Rusch <Philipp.Rusch@rusch-edv.de> :Organization: EDV Beratung Rusch / EDP Consulting Rusch / :Rosbach, Germany :To: midrange-l@midrange.com :Subject: Re: Why my system WAS so sluggish! :Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com : :I had problems at different customers when the battery pack of :the RAID controller's cache-RAM was at its end of life. There :was an SRC in the problem log, but no text giving any hint :that it could be the cache controller or the battery on it. At :the first occasion of this (like you noticed a super slow :motion system and obvious hw-errors and no "abusing" pgms), I :called IBM and they sent a real guru to us: he saw the log and :said. "Ok. I know this, I'm going back to the car to get a :battery pack for the controller." This was a model 170 with a :2740 RAID-controller running V4R3 (last year) and I don't know :if the second level text of that SST message has been :improved. The same problem happend to another customer short :time after, but that time I already knew ... ;-) (model 720 :with a 2748 controller). : :Regards from germany, Philipp Rusch : :Rick Rayburn schrieb: : :> Thanks to everyone who contributed their thoughts and information to :> this thread. The 400 community is a great "nation" of people and, as :> we all :know, :> the 400 is a damn good box to make a living with...now if we :can only :> convince IBM! :> :> The reason for my sluggishness turned out to be a bad :battery attached :> to one of the I/O cards. There was a message logged in QHST :informing :> of a damaged I/O card but alas, it was only 2 lines and no :more! So if :> you scrolled past it as I initially did...Too bad that message is not :repeated :> as happens when an ASP threshhold percentage is being :challenged. Boy, :did :> it slow us down and it appears as if there was absolutely ZERO :> reflection :of :> this within the software tools IBM has provided us. Still, I wouldn't :trade :> in my career on the 400 for any other box and with all of :the talented :> people in our user group, nothing can escape us for too long! :> :> Thanks again, :> :> Rick Rayburn :> : : : :--__--__-- : :_______________________________________________ :This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) :digest list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com :To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, :visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l :or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com :Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives :at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. : : : :End of MIDRANGE-L Digest : : : :_______________________________________________ :This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) :mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com :To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, :visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l :or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com :Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives :at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. :
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