Re: QPWRRSTIPL Reset

[Jack Kingsley <iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx>]

Rich, the default is 0, maybe it was never changed or was and got put
back.  I couldn't find in the documentation where if the value is set to 1
that it gets set back by the OS to 0.

On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 10:06 AM Rich Loeber <rich@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> We had an unplanned power failure lasting about 2 hours here last night.
> Power was restored at about 9pm but one of our servers failed to restart.
> This morning, after a manual restart, I found that the system value
> QPWRRSTIPL was set to zero.  I set it to 1 but I'm quite certain that it
> was set correctly in the past.
>
> After checking on this, I found that whenever there is a power failure,
> the OS changes this value back to zero.  I'm wondering how other shops deal
> with this.  Based on IBM's documentation, it is probably not a good idea to
> add the change back to a value of one in the startup program.
>
> Rich Loeber - @richloeber
> Kisco Information Systems
> http://www.kisco.com
>
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