Re: Stalled job

[John McKee <jmmckee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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
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> 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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