Have your student issue the command DISCFREE C from PUB.SYS.  It very well
may be a space issue from what I have seen in the past.  If he doesn't have
a SYS signon, issue this command, RUN DISCFREE.PUB.SYS;INFO='C'
This will give available space as well as configured.  Good luck.

Jeff O. Harrison, Systems Engineer
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        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Ian Sargent [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
        Sent:   Wednesday, January 26, 2000 3:26 PM
        To:     [log in to unmask]
        Subject:        Help on "Unable to create new session..."

        Hi folks,

        I have just been delivering an MPE/iX HPVC course and a
        student (with VERY little experience) came up with a question
        that I cannot answer, for two reasons:

        1. I don't have access to his system so I don't know the state
            or what is running on it etc etc
        2. I have never come across this before.

        Anyway, it would appear that his Job and Session limits are
        set to 50 or 60 and Jobfence set to 0 but with only 25 (approx)
        sessions currently running. He (users) have received "Unable
        to create new sessions.." messages. He does not know, yet,
        how to monitor the system or to find out what is going on as
        he has been given the system after the previous admin left! In
        other words he may have been handed a 'can of worms'?!

        I guess the biggest problem at this point is not knowing what
        is actually running on the system but.....

        Anyone have any idea's about this or has anyone seen this
        before?

        I believe he is based in the Houston area and any suggestions
        would be appreciated so that I can feed back to him. If anyone
        is in the Houston area that would be willing to assist I will
        get his permission to forward detail etc.

        Thanks in advance. Please email me at the address below.

        Regards
        Ian
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        Ian Sargent
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