Re: PWRDWNSYS - Recovery

["Mark Waterbury" <mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello, Andy:

This happened once when I was visiting a client site; they had hired
a new person, and gave her a manual with all of the commands, and
sat her down at a terminal and said, "Here, learn these commands."

When she got to the PWRDWNSYS command, she pressed Enter.
Suddenly, people were running around, trying to find out what had
happened.  Luckily this customer had two systems, each a mirror
of the other, so things just started to "fall-over" gracefully to the
other machine.

Meanwhile, there IS one thing you could do. In this case, they had
pressed enter with PWRDWNSYS default of OPTION(*CNTRLD)
so, we went in and issued:

    PWRDWNSYS OPTION(*IMMED) RESTART(*YES)

This way, at least the system shut down much quicker and then
immediately started back up again.  So, the whole process of going
down and coming back up again was shortened somewhat...

Again, in this particular case, the users were able to continue their
work, because of the "hot" back-up system.

Regards,

Mark S. Waterbury

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Nolen-Parkhouse" <aparkhouse@attbi.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 9:32 AM
Subject: RE: PWRDWNSYS - Trivia


> Justin,
>
> You remind me of the time my boss was test-prompting some commands to
> check their defaults.  For some reason, when he came to PWRDWNSYS, he
> hit <enter> instead of <f3>.  He ran over to my desk and we tried to
> salvage the situation (this was in the middle of a production day), but
> there was nothing we could do.
>
> I don't think there is a way to stop it.
>
> Thanks for the memories (I think).
>
> Regards,
> Andy Nolen-Parkhouse
>
> > On Behalf Of Haase, Justin C.
> > Subject: PWRDWNSYS - Trivia
> >
> > If a user were to take the PWRDWNSYS command from a command line, just
> > smack
> > enter to take defaults (controlled/30 minutes I think) - is there ANY
> way
> > to
> > cancel that, or does it have to do its thing all the way through?
> >
> > No pending emergency here mind you, just curious.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Justin C. Haase
>
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