RE: SavSys21/power failure/pwrdwnsys *immed

Before starting the SavSys21 chgmsgq (which ever you named in the system
value for the UPS), to break mode.  Then your interactive job becomes
the UPS monitoring program.

Number 2, disconnect the ups cable prior to starting the save. 


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-----Original Message-----
>We had a one second power failure blip that caused our system to do a 
>pwrdwnsys *immed with no ipl restart during an unattended GO SAVE 
>option 21 routine.
>
>That wrecked my weekend.
>
>We have a CL that runs constantly in QCTL that monitors the msg queue 
>specified in the system value QUPSMSGQ.  In this way we get complete 
>control of our system during a power failure.  We modified some CL we 
>got from IBM Boulder for this purpose.  It works fine.  We can send 
>messages, ignore short power blips, take the system down in a 
>controlled way, etc. using this CL.
>
>The above problem occurs because the SavSys21 ends the monitor program 
>when it takes the system into a restricted state even though its 
>running in QCTL.  When the one second power blip occurs, the system 
>discovers that the msg queue specified in QUPSMSGQ is NOT being 
>monitored (true) and so causes a pwrdwnsys *immed.
>
>How can the UPS be monitored during a SavSys12?