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  3. January 2006

Re: Losing Device Descriptions when system is powered down

Grizzly -

AFAIK, I've never seen this happen with IBM devices...
I would suspect that (since you didn't specify) that these are non-IBM printers that can emulate several different IBM printer models, and that when the system is IPL'ed that the "signature" that it gets is for the basic printer model that it emulates
In my experience, this has been a common problem with non-IBM devices (printers and 5250-type displays).
In my client shops where this has occurred, I have typically seen the system administrator turn OFF Automatic Configuration once everything is initially configured properly, then from that point forward, either manually create new devices using the appropriate CRT* command or turning Automatic Configuration on just long enough to configure any newly-attached devices, then turning it back off. 

Regards,
Steve Landess
Austin, Texas
(512) 423-0935
----- Original Message ----- From: "Grizzly M" <grizzlym@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 11:25 AM
Subject: Losing Device Descriptions when system is powered down



*** Disclaimer: My knowledge of devices is pretty limited



I have 2 printers that lose their device descriptions when our system is
powered down. When the system comes back up they are created by auto
configuration and don't work correctly. I can't figure out why only
these 2 devices lose their configurations and no other devices seem to.
I assume that when the system goes down the device descriptions are
being deleted. I don't know how else they would be autoconfigured on
start up. I don't see any device configuration going on in the start up
unless the program QWCSWTRS handles device configurations. For the time
being I have to delete the autoconfiged devices and recreate with the
correct settings.

Is there a way that I can prevent the devices from being lost or deleted
when the system is powered down or a way that I can get the printers to
configure correctly when the system comes back up without creating a
program? Finally, if these printers were daisy chained could that be
what is causing the initial problem of losing the devices?

Thanks in advance.

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