Re: Failed GO SAVE 21

It has been a LONG time since I've had a 3590. My evolution on AS/400
(then IBM i) tape was "something" like:
9348
QIC (various sizes)
3570
3580
3590
LTO1
LTO3
LTO4
with an 8mm thrown in there somewhere but we maybe only used it for vendor
software. I can't remember.

I can't remember if the 3590 had a menu system to power it down or some
such thing. My LTO libraries seem to have such a thing. But even so, I
often use the web interface to it instead.



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From: John McKee <jmmckee3@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 08/26/2015 02:12 PM
Subject: Re: Failed GO SAVE 21
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I can certainly agree that the final save could well be needed.

I am looking at Licensed Internal Code Log. A lot of entries. Not sure
how far back they go. Looks like older than 2014 at least.

My backup this morning resulted in 13 entries:

Source/Sink : 6
Tape support: 5
Damage set: 1
Error analysis: 1

And, two storage management entries from 12:11 and 12:40

I have no idea what the last two entries might be related to. But, there
are 46 entries just from 8/19/15 - and a bunch more further back. Also
DASD support on 08/19/15.

I wish I knew what this was about.

System has not been IPLed for a few months.

To reboot 3590 - is that just cycle the power switch? I hate asking such
naive questions.

John McKee


On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 12:14 PM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You could try rebooting 3590 and the IBM i and see if that helps.

You might want that one final save...


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From: John McKee <jmmckee3@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 08/26/2015 12:40 PM
Subject: Re: Failed GO SAVE 21
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Maintenance was dropped by IBM on 3590. Maybe the point of backups is
past
anyway. System was "frozen" earlier in the week. No new data will be
written. Just gets shut down at some point - likely when something
breaks.

I ust thought it odd that a tape change request never came.

Can't help but wonder if this might be another of those stupid "if it
ain't
broke" things where a problem might have been identified and a PTF was
prepared. Just not fixed here.

Thanks anyway.

John McKee

On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 11:31 AM, DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

wrote:

Smells more like an I/O failure to the drive or an actual error at the
drive. Honestly unless you are a very large shop we don't see many

3590s

out there any more, they are getting a bit long in the tooth.

Have IBM help you look in PAL and SAL and other logs, I bet they'll

find

something in there.

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 8/26/2015 11:33 AM, John McKee wrote:

It happened again. Runs along fine, then aborts.

I did get a job log.

System also created QPSRVDMP.

The 3590 device is in FAILED state.

From looking at QEZDEBUG, I see from the call stack, the last three

entries

are:

qsrProcessIoReqForGroup_FP7qsrList
qsrSwitchMediaVolume_FP15qsrIO_Request_T13qsrTypeOfFEOV
qsrFeovDevUfcb_FP9qsrFileCb

From looking at QSYSOPR, there is CPI5922 Device description TAP35 is

not

usable at this time. No other error message related to the drive

before

or
after that message.

From QPSRVDMP

DUMP TAKEN FOR UNMONITORED ESCAPE MESSAGE

MCH5203 Condition of source/sink object TAP35 not valid.

System (v5r4) has 246.1G and %system ASP used is 67.4779

My WAG is that the tape got full. But, unlike last week, I never saw

a

message requesting a tape change. Last week, I did see that message

along

with a message that tape drive needed to be cleaned - which I did

last

week.

So, any idea as to why there was no tape change message?

John McKee

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