Re: remote 520 questions (more)

I understand about single disk loss. Just keep getting comments like
system is ready to keel over. This is not a 50 year old car. But, the
people I have been working with.....

Do you have any references to free or otherwise PDF converters? Maybe
email me directly at jmmckee <at> flinthills <dot> com

John McKee

On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Luis Rodriguez <luisro58@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

John,

Regarding some of your questions:

1) If a RAID set loses one (and only one) drive there should not be any
data loss. Be aware, though, that in that case your data is at risk because
the RAID protections is lost....

2) Don't know about the SPOOLTOOLS program, but there are several (free,
almost free) programs out there that allows you to easily convert your
spool data to PDF. It should be really simple to run to your spool list
with a CL program and convert each entry to a PDF.

3) Not knowing how big you spool entries are is difficult to know how much
space it would take as PDFs.

HTH,

Luis


Luis Rodriguez
IBM Certified Systems Expert — eServer i5 iSeries
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On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 12:07 PM, John McKee <jmmckee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

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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