Re: Remote system saves

["John Candidi" <jacandidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Looking back that's a funny story..Thank you for your time Bryan!!!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Burns, Bryan" <burnsbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 3:29 PM
Subject: RE: Remote system saves


> I believe it would have.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Candidi [mailto:jacandidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 2:18 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Re: Remote system saves
>
>
> So what you are saying, is that if the console does not fall asleep, it
> should work?
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Burns, Bryan" <burnsbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 3:08 PM
> Subject: RE: Remote system saves
>
>
> > Al,
> >
> > Tried that once in May and got burned.  Scheduled it for 00:01:00 from
our
> > twinax console (a Decision Data model 1437G) the night before our
upgrade
> > from V4R5 to V5R2.
> >
> > Got up at 4:30 A.M. to check it from home and it had not started,
> WRKACTJOB
> > showed
> >
> >   DSPLYA0      QSECOFR    INT  .0   DLY-00:01:00      DSPW
> >
> > Wasn't sure what happened but thought I might as well kick off a MAPICS
> > backup from home before I drive in to troubleshoot from the console.
> Kicked
> > off the MAPICS backup and drove in.
> >
> > I started working on the console to troubleshoot why my save 21 never
> > started and all the sudden I get a message that subsystems are ending!
The
> > save 21 started as soon as I started working on the console.  Right in
the
> > middle of my MAPICS backup!
> >
> > Near as I can tell, the console fell asleep (autodim was set to YES)
> > preventing the save from starting as scheduled.
> >
> > So we lost a few hours on our upgrade.
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Al Barsa [mailto:barsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 1:12 PM
> > To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> > Subject: Re: Remote system saves
> >
> >
> >
> > There's a (relatively [V4R1]) new option on GO SAVE 21 for start time.
> Set
> > it any time within the next 23:59:59, and that's when it will start.
> >
> > Al
> >
> >
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