AS/400 and dictionary problem

[Adam Woodhouse]

Thanks for the feedback Michael.

I have logged a call with Cognos and they have informed me that it is a
logged bug with a previous version of Powerhouse.  I believe 6.07.D (we are
on 6.07.F).  Their suggestion was (they say it is very rare and cannot be
duplicated) we inform all users to properly log off via the PH menus before
they close their teminal emulation program or power down.  By not exiting
the PH screens properly there is potential for the PHD to not 'close'
properly.  We have a tool that logs who does not log out of their screens
properly so we are going to ask all users to log out completely before
killing their terminal app.  Hopefully this will reduce the chances of this
happening again.

Adam Woodhouse
Adminsource/AGF
Ontario, Canada
www.agf.com





Michael Lee <mcl_systems@bc.sympatico.ca> on 05/07/99 09:06:05 AM

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It's been a while since I've been on an AS/400 but this kind of rings a
bell.
There could be a problem with someone being in PDL (which is still pointing
to
the dictionary) at that time. It should/could be easy to test. Other than
that
I have no idea.

Michael Lee
MCL Systems Inc.


Adam Woodhouse wrote:

> Hello,  had a major problem last night.  We are running PH 6.07.F on an
> AS/400.  This version of PH is the latest version available for the
AS/400.
> In general, it runs very well.  No crashes or errors that some experience
> in this forum.  Last night however we got the message "Specified
dictionary
> is locked for an update. Try later".  No one was in doing maintenance on
> the dictionary.  No one was doing a recompile.  Only the operator was
> logged in submitting the same (evening) jobs that get submitted every day
> of the week.  There were no new program changes promoted to Production.
> Last night was a very routine run.  So ... we did a check to see if the
> file was "in use" (WRKOBJLCK) and it was not.  I could not run Quiz, QTP
or
> QDesign because of this 'status' the PHD was in.  I tried copying the PHD
> and then pointed to it but got the exact same message on the copied PHD.
> So I could copy and delete the PHD but I could not use it.  Since I could
> not set it as my default dictionary because of this "Specified dictionary
> is locked for an update. Try later" I couldn't look at its contents to
see
> if it was corrupt in any way.  We have had to pull off of backup the
> previous days PHD and replace the current PHD with it.  Now the problem
has
> gone away.
>
> But why/how would the dictionary go into such a state all of a sudden?
>
>  Any insight anyone can share would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Adam Woodhouse
> Adminsource/AGF
> Ontario, Canada
> www.agf.com
>
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