1) One drive out of a RAID set (V5R3) no problem other than the system is
no longer protected. Another drive fails goodbye partition. Reload time.
Since the Cache is out it will take some "major minutes" to do. (read many
hours)
2) IBM does not have an easy answer; the OEM product route is the best,
call Brad.
3) Unknown but a bit doubtful. My guess is you'll need to add some storage,
that's the bad news. Good news is for that usage it will be cheap (assuming
the HSL loop adapter is there)
4) I think Rob's earlier answer to this was accurate. It's most likely the
DDM attributes that are causing the problem, or the user profile/password
combination does not exist on both sides.
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Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects
-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John
McKee
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2015 10:37 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: remote 520 questions (more)
I was asked mor questions.
As part of the (in)famous "decommissiong", we continue to find issues. For
example, I am looking at an output that has 171423 files. There are other
queues with a large number as well, but probably not as many. Cache battery
is gone.
Since we recently had cache battery and hard drive replaced on local system,
I feel confident (maybe foolishly?) that this isn't an issue, but I was
asked. If a remote drive craps out - it is in a RAID set, is there any
potential data loss? They are keeping things in output queues because there
is no alternative.
They need to keep the content, which brings up the related question, and I
am thinking no easy answer here. Remote is v5r3. Can the spool files be
converted to PDF? I am cringing at the thought of doing this for 171423 or
even 11,736 files. But, I have to ask. Does SPOOLTOOL have this
capability?
Due to large outques and I don't know how much actual junk, if SPOOLTOOLS
could do conversion to PDF (again, on v5r3 system), could it be installed
without pushing Dasd over the edge? System is at 88.5142 of 317.1G.
I created a user profile on local 520 (v5r4) with same user name and
password as my profile ob the remote system. Still could not open a DDM
file. Same error and reason code - 17. Maybe there is an exit program
involved, but command to look at exit programs has slipped away from active
memory. Maybe it is just file authority. My login is tied to a group
profile so when I sign on, I have needed authority to access files. Maybe
whatever job provides DDM service needs that authority - if so, what
profile is that?
I deeply appreciate your patience and assistance. This whole process is
rapidly approaching the looney stage.
John McKee
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