Hello Paul,

The patch that probably caused this is JAVKXQ8C which has a 'custom
install' job called IHFKXQ8C that tobyte's the tar file Z00ZJAVA.INSTALL.JAVA.
It unconditionally paused 10 minutes to be sure that a the job that copied the
tar file which had been streamed earlier in the process, had completed.

Sometime ago I submitted a revised version of IHFKXQ8C as the result of a
posting here on 3000-L. I am currently looking into the status of that submittal.

You could change one line of IHFKXQ8C from

!PAUSE 600

to

!PAUSE 600,JOB="COPYFILE,MGR.JAVA"

This will pause up to 10 min. if a COPYFILE job exists (is running/waiting). If
there is no such job in existence then no pause is done.

The revised job did a bit more than just this. It ensured no error occurred as the
result of the pause and then made sure (via finfo) that the tar file about to be
tobyte'd existed. If anything was amiss messages are sent to the console.

With luck, the change I submitted will eventually make it out in some form. I am
surprised it had not yet so I'm looking into that.

Hope this helps,

Bill Cadier
HP/CSY
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-----Original Message-----
From: Paul H Christidis <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 12:31 PM
Subject: [HP3000-L] Long 'pause' during 6.0 upgrade


>Fellow listers,
>
>During our recent 6.0 upgrade I noticed a long pause (around 10 minutes)
>during step 5.15 (Rerunning AUTOINST).  Closer examination showed that a
>batch job had been submitted that contained a 'pause 600' command just
>prior to its end.
>
>We are about to upgrade another server and I'd like to eliminate most of
>that additional wait.  Unfortunately I did not make a note of the file name
>involved, and the corresponding spool file has been deleted.
>
>Does anyone happen to have that name on their notes?
>
>Regards
>Paul Christidis
>