Re: Chgpf hanging after 6.1 OS installed

Tom Deskevich wrote:

Installing all the PTFs that IBM software support recommended
did not work.

Interesting point. I tried this morning to do a CHGPF on the
SAME file that I manually processed and it worked.

I was ready to send the victory e-mail to IT, then I thought
I would try another file. It hung.

The status in WRKACTJOB is RUN. Here is the call stack:

Module or Statement
Type Program Expanded Type Identifiers
QCMD QSYS
<<SNIP>>
3 QUICMD QSYS
QDBCHGFI QSYS QDBCHGFI QBUILDSS1 17910
QMHPDEH QSYS

A later post indicates the problem was resolved by a PTF; thus this is just FYI, more generally.

FWiW, the above stack indicates the change file processing took an unmonitored exception msgXXX#### T/QDBCHGFI TM/QDBCHGFI STMT/17910 such that the Default Exception Handler took control. Presumably that exception is then handled, but in a manner which then results in a loop vs hang condition; depending on the inquiry message reply handling, such a loop could be a side effect of a bad auto-reply. A trace would show more detail; many refreshes of the stack view may also show more details, but less efficiently and easily missing much. If instead the condition were a hang [in RUN, or at least other than MSGW or LCKW], then the previously noted LIC process dump would be of more interest.

Regards, Chuck