Re: Next IPL Abnormal

[Jack Kingsley <iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx>]

I am going to guess, look through your history logs and see how many IPL's
took place.  I believe until you get a normal IPL this flag value will be
tripped abnormal.

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Jerry Adams <Jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have a program that checks the QABNORMSW system value ("Next IPL will be
> Normal or Abnormal").  This runs every evening at about 1600.  Since 3 July,
> when I applied the latest cume (5.4), it has been Normal.  Last night it
> reported back as Abnormal.
>
> The only "incident" between Wednesday night and last night was a power
> failure.  I wasn't here, but my boss used PWRDWNSYS *Immed.  We actually
> have two [2] 520's that are mirror images (although no twinax devices are
> plugged into the second/backup system).  The second system was, also,
> powered down at the same time, but its next IPL will be Normal.  Turns out
> that the local utility decided to give us some juice before he left do he
> powered them back up using the little white button.  Everything looked fine
> when I came in yesterday morning about 0530; all overnight jobs had run
> successfully and the order entry lines were up and functioning.
>
> I'm printing the History for the period using *PRTSECLVL, but I don't know
> what I should be looking for.  Any clues/suggestions would be appreciated,
>
> Jerry C. Adams
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