RE: LPAR weekend -- MIDRANGE-L

Wow - "sucks to be you" Rob ;-)

Seem like more and more of this going on that NEVER used to be a problem
with the AS/400-iSeries on SIMPLE stuff ? I mean how hard should it be
to save the system ? ? ! !

IBM has been in here working on a 9427 tape unit that damages tapes or
either won't load or won't unload 8mm cartridges for a month on and off
and pretty much everything has been replaced. They were in Friday and
will be back in on Monday...  This HAS been escalated to the highest
levels at IBM and a Problem Resolution Manager (or something like that)
has been involved (this after I used the iSeries Nation link to ask for
an new tape unit for free at Christmas <BG>).

The CE's are great and trying there best, but none of us likes this
stupid thing that I inherited when I got here (and where I worked
before, I had a 3590 - waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa)..

Good luck buddy !

Chuck

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@midrange.com
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@midrange.com] On Behalf Of rob@dekko.com
Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2003 6:11 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: LPAR weekend



Having some fun this weekend.

We are LPARing our 840.  We contracted with a company to come in and
help us.

Plans were to start the save on Friday.  Finish it 5am Saturday.  Have
IBM do an hour or two's worth of work.  Then the consultant would spend
around 13 hours setting it up.

Backup got a 4 hour delay on Friday.  Those of you who've heard my
battle with pase / TSM.  Well not even PWRDWNSYS would kill those jobs.
(At least I got tired of waiting, 30 minutes.)  Pushed the magic white
button on the front to power it down.  Hung for 15 minutes on one
particular code.  Just as I was about to start searching for circuit
breakers, it started going through more codes and finally powered down.

After restarting, we started the backups.  A backup that normally takes
9 hours took 16.  So instead of starting at 5am on Saturday, the IBMer
got started at 4pm.  I wonder why.  Remember, we haven't started the
LPAR yet. We expected some growth since the last complete save, but not
that much in 8 weeks.  Can't figure it out.  Would it be something
weird, like, after bring it down hard it touches each object on a save
and 'fixes' it?  We didn't do a RCLSTG because of a time crunch and that
normally takes 7 hours.  Funny how a normal 9 hour save and a normal 7
hour RCLSTG ends up being a 16 hour save.

We'll be cutting it close this weekend...

Rob Berendt
--
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin


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