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Our AS/400 IPL everynight. It does backup first, then system cleaning and IPL. I'm just trying to find out where those jobs get defined?

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jingyizou:

Hard to be certain since there are multiple possibilities.

The cleaning is likely scheduled through the GO CLEANUP menu. The IPL might be scheduled through the GO POWER menu. The backup might be scheduled through the GO BACKUP menu.

I figure none are scheduled through the standard job scheduler since that's probably the first place you looked and some functions can be tricky to make work through there. But you might want to review the list of scheduled jobs through the WRKJOBSCDE command just to see what else might be affecting the others.

If none of those show anything useful, let us know. There are some more difficult procedures possible.

Tom

ShadowProgrammer

It is possible you have a single job scheuled though WRKJOBSCDE which calls a CL program to perform all or some of the functions...

It could back up the system, do the system clean (not sure what this covers) and then power down the system with option restart(*YES)
>> this would perform an abbreviated IPL.

It could back up the system, do the system clean (not sure what this covers), set the system value QIPLDATTIM for an auto-IPL and then powerdown the system with option restart(*NO)

Or as Tom has suggested you may have IPL's scheduled through the GO POWER menu.. the CL program could back up the system, do the system clean (not sure what this covers) and then powerdown the system with option restart(*NO)

Tony.

jingyizou

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Tony, Tom, thank you for you guys quick response.

I went to go power, there is nothing schedule there. See following screenshot

Display Power On/Off Schedule
05/10/06 16:26:25
Start list at . . . . . . . . Date

Power Power
Date Day On Off Description
05/10/06 Wed
05/11/06 Thu
05/12/06 Fri
05/13/06 Sat

05/14/06 Sun
05/15/06 Mon
05/16/06 Tue
05/17/06 Wed
05/18/06 Thu
05/19/06 Fri
05/20/06 Sat

More...
Press Enter to continue.

F1=Help F3=Exit F12=Cancel

Then I ran wrkjobscde, see following screenshot (2 pages)

--Page 1--

Work with Job Schedule Entries
05/10/06 16:27:31

Type options, press Enter.
2=Change 3=Hold 4=Remove 5=Display details 6=Release
8=Work with last submission 10=Submit immediately

Next
-----Schedule------ Recovery Submit
Opt Job Status Date Time Frequency Action Date
QEZBKTMFRI SCD *FRI 20:30:00 *WEEKLY *NOSBM 05/12/06
QEZBKTMMON SCD *MON 20:30:00 *WEEKLY *NOSBM 05/15/06
QEZBKTMTHU SCD *THU 20:30:00 *WEEKLY *NOSBM 05/11/06
QEZBKTMTUE SCD *TUE 20:30:00 *WEEKLY *NOSBM 05/16/06
QEZBKTMWED SCD *WED 20:30:00 *WEEKLY *NOSBM 05/10/06
QSDAUTOTST SCD *TUE 15:00:00 *WEEKLY *SBMRLS 05/16/06
Q3BB SCD *ALL 01:14:04 *WEEKLY *SBMRLS 05/11/06
More...
Parameters or command
===>
F3=Exit F4=Prompt F5=Refresh F6=Add F9=Retrieve
F11=Display job queue data F12=Cancel F17=Top F18=Bottom

--page 2--
Work with Job Schedule Entries
05/10/06 16:27:31

Type options, press Enter.
2=Change 3=Hold 4=Remove 5=Display details 6=Release
8=Work with last submission 10=Submit immediately

Next
-----Schedule------ Recovery Submit
Opt Job Status Date Time Frequency Action Date
STARTWTR SCD USER DEF 06:00:00 *WEEKLY *SBMRLS 05/11/06
Display detail for job Q3bb, i can see command field as following

Command . . . . . . . . . . . : CALL PGM(QSYS/QYPSSTRT) PARM(X'000003BB' X'0
0000001' 0 0)

Any idea what's the program for?

Display detail for job STARTWTR,

Display Job Schedule Entry Details
System: MAESTRO
Job: STARTWTR Entry number: 000118 Status: SCD

Next submit date . . . . . . . : 05/11/06
Command . . . . . . . . . . . : CALL PGM(STARTWTR)

Job queue . . . . . . . . . . : *JOBD
Library . . . . . . . . . . :
Job queue status . . . . . . . :
Job description . . . . . . . : *USRPRF
Library . . . . . . . . . . :
Scheduled by . . . . . . . . . : TEST1
User profile . . . . . . . . . : QSECOFR
Message queue . . . . . . . . : *USRPRF
Library . . . . . . . . . . :
Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . :

Bottom
Press Enter to continue.

F3=Exit F6=Display last successful submission F12=Cancel

The library filed is blank, how can i find pgm startwtr?

Bottom
Parameters or command
===>
F3=Exit F4=Prompt F5=Refresh F6=Add F9=Retrieve
F11=Display job queue data F12=Cancel F17=Top F18=Bottom

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Sorry... I meant Tony might have other thoughts (though Barry might also, not to mention Dave and...)

Tom

daveslater

Hi
cleanup is the best option as there is an option for schedule power off, the screen will look like this.

Change Cleanup Options
16/06/06 15:44:22
Type choices below, then press Enter.

Allow automatic cleanup . . . . . . . . . . . . . Y Y=Yes, N=No

Time cleanup starts each day . . . . . . . . . . 04:30:00 00:00:00-
23:59:59,
*SCDPWROFF,
*NONE

Number of days to keep:
User messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 1-366, *KEEP
System and workstation messages . . . . . . . . 10 1-366, *KEEP
Job logs and other system output . . . . . . . 7 1-366, *KEEP
System journals and system logs . . . . . . . . 40 1-366, *KEEP

F1=Help F3=Exit F5=Refresh F12=Cancel

Dave