Re: Stalled job

Thanks Rob.

I shouldn't have posted. Looks like a program was in a loop.
Consultant demanded specific code be added to a program. I did.
Apparently made the dumb mistake of counting on them to do what they
said. Bad data is likely the problem - usually is. With consultants,
the rule should always be "Trust, but Verify".

John McKee

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 8:59 AM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Index rebuild?
If the call stack points to a vendor supplied program (IQ) then call them.
But watch the call stack and see if it's changing.  Check the job log to
ensure that no one held this running job.


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From:   John McKee <jmmckee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To:     Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Date:   05/15/2012 09:37 AM
Subject:        Stalled job
Sent by:        midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx



When I got to work this morning, a job queue had 20 jobs waiting.
There was one job running, sort of, in the subsystem assigned to that
job queue.  I say "sort of" because it wasn't doing anything.  Open
files, but no I/O.

I looked for unanswered messages on QSYSOPR.  Nothing.

The job was running (again, sort of) multiple IQ queries to prepare a
data file for an RPG program.  Just stopped doing things.

I wish I had had the time to look at it further before ending it.

Does anything make sense?

John McKee
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