Line descriptions

I had a line description which was really old. Said it was 100M but it was really 1GB. I was having issues with this. Why it suddenly appeared turned out to be a firewall issue which was also affecting other equipment.
Brought the system into restricted state and varied off the line. Could not do a 2 on it. Well, you could but it did not retrieve any current values. Instead it just said *SAME. And when I changed that one parameter it squawked about some parameters I couldn't even find, for example, autocreate controller. The message was basically telling me to delete this and rebuild it. So I thought I would just do a RTVCFGSRC and do that. Noticed that the RTVCFGSRC didn't bring back the bad parameters (which is probably a good thing). When I got done I compared that with a valid line on a like lpar and doctored that up a little. The only additional changes I had to make was remove/change some obsolete SSAP values. Then it worked like a champ. Still had the firewall issues we had to resolve but it was probably a good thing to clean it up anyway.
We have a data center move coming up and I would have hated a coincidence like that hitting at the same time.

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Rob Berendt
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