Re: Jobs running without a program stack

[Jerry Adams <jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sounds more like Al used it as a heater.  Did that once with a Model 15D 
(and, if you know what that means, you are old).

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Ingvaldson, Scott wrote:
> You used a 595 as a thermostat?!
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> What will those guys in Roch. think of next?
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> Scott Ingvaldson
> Senior IBM Support Specialist
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> This sounds like a caper for IBM support.  50 batch jobs is a lot, but
> maybe not for a 595. The only time I have used a 595 was when testing
> V5R4 on a 570, and we used it to regulate the temperature in the
> freezing computer lab in Rochester.
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> Hi All
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> One of our customers is experiencing a strange problem with some batch
> jobs running in a subsystem.  The subsystem allows up to 50 jobs to run
> and there are currently 35 or so showing when we do a WRKACTJOB.
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> A number of the jobs are in status EOJ and have been for the last 10
> hours.  There is no CPU usage happening on these jobs.  If I do a WRKJOB
> on one of the jobs with a status of EOJ and then try to display the call
> stack there is a pause of between 1-2 minutes and then nothing shows.
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> If I then do a WRKJOB on a job with a status of RUN that shows a
> function of PGM-xxxxxxxx the same thing happens, there is a pause and
> nothing showing in the call stack.
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> There are no untoward entries in the joblog, and if I try to work with
> any locks for the job the screen just hangs.
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> They are running v5r3 with PTF C6178530 installed on a model 595.
> Everything I've found on Google points to PTFs that have long since been
> superseded or microcode package GA1.  I believe that being on a 595 they
> should be on microcode package GA3, but don't know how or if I can
> confirm that.
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> Has anybody seen this type of thing before or got any suggestions as to
> what could be causing this?
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> Thanks
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> Jonathan
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