Re: Jobs running without a program stack

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?!

What will those guys in Roch. think of next?

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Scott Ingvaldson
Senior IBM Support Specialist
Fiserv Midwest

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From: Al Barsa [mailto:barsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 10:36 AM
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Subject: Re: Jobs running without a program stack


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.

Al

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Hi All

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.

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.

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.

There are no untoward entries in the joblog, and if I try to work with
any locks for the job the screen just hangs.

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superseded or microcode package GA1.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.

Has anybody seen this type of thing before or got any suggestions as to
what could be causing this?

Thanks

Jonathan


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