Re: Tape Drive Failed During Backup - No Halt

Yes, there is an entry in WRKPRB for this condition. The CPI5922 error
message told me to run the ANZPRB command if the problem persisted after
varying the dice off and on, but, since the drive went to Varied On and
worked, I never pursued that line. The problem reports message CPF6797 as
the message id. It, also, says that the error is an alertable condition,
but option 9 (Work with Alerts) says that there are no alerts, but that is
because the ALRLOGSTS (to which I never paid any attention before) is set to
*Off.

The tape drive does seem to be useable after the vary off/on steps. I set
up a program to save a bushel basket full of libraries, and they were all
saved (DSPTAP to *Print).

Jerry C. Adams
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jack Kingsley
Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 11:38 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: [Junk released by Allow List] Re: Tape Drive Failed During
Backup - No Halt

Jerry, do you have any entries in your WRKPRB?? Also, was/is the tape
drive
usable after the problem.

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Jerry Adams <Jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Friday evening my boss was finishing up the end-of-day backup, which goes
to our 6384 (cartridge) device. I have a procedure that checks the

veracity

of the backup after it has finished; for the first time it came back as
failed.

I was not able to get at the system (5320 running V5R4) until this

morning.

There is no job log for the process (which will be changed real quick),

but

the History showed:

Job 429669/QPM400/Q1PPMSUB started on 09/24/10 at 16:00:51 in subsystem
QSYSW
Job 429669/QPM400/Q1PPMSUB ended on 09/24/10 at 16:00:52; 1 seconds used;
end
Session to device C4 ended normally.
Service Agent is analyzing your system product activity log entries.
Job 429657/QUSER/QZDASOINIT ended on 09/24/10 at 16:15:51; 1 seconds

used;

en
Timeout on device TAP01. [CPF415F]
Device description TAP01 is not usable at this time. [CPI5922]
Receiving Will Be Terminated
Receiving Will Be Terminated
Command did not complete on device TAP01. [CPF6797]

Message CPI5922 said to vary the device off and then on, and report a
problem if that did not work. WRKCFGSTS *DEV showed the device in a

FAILED

status. Varying it off and on put it in a Varied on status. I have
exercised the drive this morning, and it seems to be working.

Now for my questions.

First, why did the system not display an error message (this is an
interactive job, by the way)? I use MONMSG after the SAVLIB command but

not

for any of these messages.

Second, I have never tried to MONMSG for more than one condition or set
(such as MONMSG MSGID(CPF9801 CPF9810) EXEC(DO) ). Is it possible

(allowed)

to have multiple MONMSG groups after a command that, for example, branch

to

different error portions of the program, or call other programs? Such

as:

DLTF FILE(JERRY)
MONMSG MSGID(CPF2105) EXEC(GOTO CMDLBL(NOTFOUND))
MONMSG MSGID(CPF0675) EXEC(GOTO CMDLBL(INUSE))

Thanks.

Jerry C. Adams
IBM System i Programmer/Analyst
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