Re: SavSys21/power failure/pwrdwnsys *immed

[Jerry Draper <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sounds like the best plan.

Jerry

Quoting Pete Massiello <pmassiello@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Why not run a program that right before you go into restricted mode and
> end the UPS Monitor program, to set it to delayed some number of seconds,
> so that during the SAVE21 it doesnt shut the system down during a quick
> blip of power, only when it goes longer then your duration that you set
> before going into restricted state.
> 
> Pete
> 
> ---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
> Subject: SavSys21/power failure/pwrdwnsys *immed
> From:    "Jerry Draper" <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:    Mon, November 28, 2005 6:01 pm
> To:      midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> > 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?
> >
> > Jerry Draper
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