Greetings,

When the payroll can be run I am in trouble!

The mgr of our Payroll dept called me this morning with a problem. I have checked everything I
can think of. No locks in effect, IO has aborted, tried to abortjob....nothing works. The
terminal and printer in the payroll dept are hung. I hate to think that I have to shut the entire
system down, but hey! the payroll must be done.

I understand what Stan said about "critical mode" and I'm sure that is what going on here.
But can anybody explain this Strange stuff, mpex "SHOWPROC" shows me the PIN's, but KILL
complains "Process ! does not exist." Here's what I mean...


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%showproc job=s1246
QPRI  CPUTIME   STATE  JOBNUM  PIN  (PROGRAM) STEP

                      #s1246, mgr.payroll,pub (ldev 187)
B100  0:00.496  WAIT   S1246   225  (JSMAIN.PUB.SYS)
?-277  0:00.000  READY  S1246     188  (???)
%kill 188
Processing 188
Process ! does not exist. (CIERR 11004)
%kill 225
Processing 225
Process ! does not exist. (CIERR 11004)
%showprocc job=s1246
QPRI  CPUTIME   STATE  JOBNUM  PIN  (PROGRAM) STEP

                      #s1246, mgr.payroll,pub (ldev 187)
B100  0:00.509  WAIT   S1246   225  (JSMAIN.PUB.SYS)
?-277  0:00.000  READY  S1246     188  (???)
%showtime
THU, NOV  7, 1996, 10:06 AM
%console 68
CONSOLE HAS BEEN SWITCHED FROM LDEV 20 TO LDEV 68 .
%abortjob #s1246
%showtime
THU, NOV  7, 1996, 10:06 AM
%abortio 187
No I/O to abort for device !. (CIWARN 3028)
%showtime
THU, NOV  7, 1996, 10:07 AM
%showproc job=s1246
QPRI  CPUTIME   STATE  JOBNUM  PIN  (PROGRAM) STEP

                      #s1246, mgr.payroll,pub (ldev 187)
B100  0:00.545  WAIT   S1246   225  (JSMAIN.PUB.SYS)
?-277  0:00.000  READY  S1246     188  (???)
%showclock

SYSTEM TIME: THU, NOV  7, 1996, 10:08:23 AM
CURRENT TIME CORRECTION:            0 SECONDS
TIME ZONE:    6 HOURS  0 MINUTES WESTERN HEMISPHERE

%console 20
CONSOLE HAS BEEN SWITCHED FROM LDEV 68 TO LDEV 20 .
%
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Has anyone every experienced this?
It seems as though MPE is a little out-to-lunch here. Showing me the PIN's and then telling me
they don't exist.
It would nice if somebody could shed some light on this. Seems like a RE-Boot is in order.

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Michael Anderson
HP3000 Systems Programmer/Analyst
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Current: TIW Corporation Houston Texas
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