AS/400 and dictionary problem

[Sherri Sheerr]

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From: Adam Woodhouse <adamw@agf.com>
To: mcl_systems@bc.sympatico.ca <mcl_systems@bc.sympatico.ca>
Cc: powerh-l@lists.swau.edu <powerh-l@lists.swau.edu>
Date: Friday, May 07, 1999 10:08 AM
Subject: Re: AS/400 and dictionary problem


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>Thanks for the feedback Michael.
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>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.
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>Adam Woodhouse
>Adminsource/AGF
>Ontario, Canada
>www.agf.com
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>Michael Lee <mcl_systems@bc.sympatico.ca> on 05/07/99 09:06:05 AM
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>Please respond to mcl_systems@bc.sympatico.ca
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> Subject: Re: AS/400 and dictionary problem
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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
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>the dictionary) at that time. It should/could be easy to test. Other than
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>Michael Lee
>MCL Systems Inc.
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>Adam Woodhouse wrote:
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>> 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
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>> 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
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>> 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
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>> 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
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>> But why/how would the dictionary go into such a state all of a sudden?
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>>  Any insight anyone can share would be greatly appreciated.
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>> Thanks.
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>> Adam Woodhouse
>> Adminsource/AGF
>> Ontario, Canada
>> www.agf.com
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