We have a dailyjob that streams a bunch of jobs including a job that
downloads a file from our web server to the e3000. On july 19, we had a
problem with FTP, as a result the ftp connection failed and the file was not
downloaded. The job does not do any checking to stop processing in case of
FTP connection failure so it continued.Unfortunately this caused the program
the job runs to abort due to NONEXISTENT PERMANENT FILE(please see below).
This is all understandable, THE MYSTERY IS, THIS JOB TOOK 716 MINUTES BEFORE
IT ENDED.   Has anyone had this experience before? If yes I would appreciate
an explanation as to why this happened as well as suggestions to help
prevent this from happening in the future.

Thanks in advance.


:RUN FTP.ARPA.SYS;STDIN=T2

File Transfer Protocol [A0009001] (C) Hewlett-Packard Co. 1990
ftp> open ###.##.#.##
Connection Failure
Cannot connect to host:  (###.##.#.##)  (FTPERR 9)
ftp> USER webdev\pswd
Not connected.  (FTPERR 8)
ftp> macs
?Invalid command.  (FTPERR 6)
ftp> cd /parade
Not connected.  (FTPERR 8)
ftp> delete crlhold.txt
Not connected.  (FTPERR 8)
ftp> rename crl.txt crlhold.txt
Not connected.  (FTPERR 8)
ftp> get crlhold.txt webinqi.ppdoc;REC=-264,,F,ASCII;disc=40000
Not connected.  (FTPERR 8)
ftp> rename crlhold.txt X71919.txt
Not connected.  (FTPERR 8)
ftp> close
Not connected.  (FTPERR 8)
ftp> exit


END OF PROGRAM
 :COMMENT ***********************************
 :COMMENT **   TO CONVERT FILE TO TAPEMACS **
 :COMMENT **   CATALOG REQUEST FORM AND    **
 :COMMENT **   EMAIL ADDRESS               **
 :COMMENT ***********************************
 :PURGE WEBINQO.PUB
       ^
File "WEBINQO.PUB.SGAII" not found.  No purge done. (CIWARN 383)
 :BUILD WEBINQO.PUB;REC=-320,10,F,ASCII;DISC=100000
 :FILE WEBCAT=WEBCAT.PPDOC
 :FILE WEBINQI=WEBINQI.PPDOC
 :FILE WEBINQO=WEBINQO.PUB
 :RUN WEBINQ.PPCODE;LIB=G;STDIN=T1

**** ACCOUNT SGAII
Filename: WEBINQI
File status is 35
FILE NOT FOUND [35] (COBERR 647)
Program file: WEBINQ.PPCODE.SGAII
NONEXISTENT PERMANENT FILE  (FSERR 52)

 +-F-I-L-E---I-N-F-O-R-M-A-T-I-O-N---D-I-S-P-L-A-Y+
 !  ERROR NUMBER: 0     RESIDUE: 17993    (WORDS) !
 !  BLOCK NUMBER: 1381113909   NUMREC: 19525      !
 +------------------------------------------------+
**** COB_QUIT 647 ****

ABORT: WEBINQ.PPCODE.SGAII
 NM SYS   a.00a9a4a0 dbg_abort_trace+$24
 NM USER  19c.0024f394 COB_QUIT+$b8
 NM PROG  abd.00006784 _start+$26c

Program terminated in an error state. (CIERR 976)
REMAINDER OF JOB FLUSHED.
CPU sec. = 2.  elapsed min. = 716.  FRI, JUL 20, 2001,  6:56 AM.

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