RE: Weird Message During System Save

Hi Shannon

You might want to consider changing the message action to *NOTIFY instead
of*BREAK so that messages like these don't disrupt your backup process.

Regards
Evan Harris

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Subject: Weird Message During System Save


I had a very weird (to me) message pop up during my GO Save (Option 21) last
night.

The message was "APPN Not Replying... "(MSGID CPA58E0) and then it had a
controller description
name which we use to connect to a mainframe.

This was during a system save so the system was in a restricted state (the
SYSTEM IN RESTRICTED
state message (forget the exact text on that but it's the restricted message
you'd normally see
when you do a ENDSBS(*ALL)) and to my knowledge, nothing else was running.

The backup did not complete. In fact, the back never even started because
between the time we hit
the enter key after filling in the parms on the Go Save option 21 screen and
the time that message
popped up was almost an hour and a half so we'd already left by that time as
we thought it the
bakckup was running.

Did not discover this message waiting then until we came back in this
morning.

My question then (finally) is...what would cause an APPN controller to do
anything when the system
is in a restricted state like this and what can I do to prevent it tonight
when I attempt the full
system save again?



Shannon O'Donnell