Darell--
It all depends...
One way to restart the system is to switch to a manual IPL (using the buttons on the front of the system), and let the machine reboot. This should bring up the console, but not run any automatic startup program. This will allow you to inspect the system (see below).
We assume that if the system goes down, we do NOT want everything to start back up automatically-- we don't want an automatic re-boot at power on; we don't want any 'startup' program to start things!
So we do not have an automatic startup program of any sort in our systems. We want to bring the system to a controlled state (ie console active, users NOT on the system, no batch jobs running) so we can examine the jobs that were running when the system crashed. We need to examine any batch jobs and see if they can be re-run, or if we need to manually find out how far they had progressed and re-start them at the point of failure. The system logs (QHST and QSYSOPR) will provide a list of the jobs completed when the system was re-started, so it's fairly easy to find out what was running.
Users are responsible for keeping track of what they were doing when the system failed-- and to either back out any half-completed work, or finish what they started.
That said, we used to have smaller 'satellite' AS400s at some remote warehouses. These were set to automatically IPL after a power failure, and all had startup programs that re-started communications to headquarters. It's been a few years, so I don't recall if we had the main warehousing application re-start or not. The key was getting communications back up and running so headquarters could poke at the system.
Paul E Musselman
IT Technical Support
General Cable Corporation
(859) 572-8030 phone
(859) 760-8030 cell
-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Darell Wheeler
Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 10:13 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: AS400 Server Down-Power outage
Hi,
The AS400 Server was brought down suddenly this weekend due to power outage.
Can anyone please let me know how we bring the server up in such cases after it has been shut down.
Thanks
Darell
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