I strongly recommend against streaming this job in sysstart.

Make it (for example) part of the operator's logon udc.  (You do kick off a bunch of jobs on start-up yes?  And they're
not in sysstart, yes?  You want 1) your sysstart file as clean and simple as possible and 2) your start-up process to be
granular (that is -- do stuff is distinct steps).  You'll be happier in the long run.       - d 'you could buy a ups,
you know'

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Donna Hofmeister
Allegro Consultants, Inc.
408-252-2330


> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John Pitman
> Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 3:15 PM
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> Subject: [HP3000-L] sysstart commands
>
> We use some msg files in our system to request background jobs to print various documents as they
> become available. Whenever the system goes down unexpectedly, as in power losses outside UPS capacity,
> these files can be left damaged and don't work properly. The writing process doesn't get any errors,
> but the readers don't get any data.
> I added some purges to sysstart in an attempt to clean this up (the writer programs rebuild the files
> if not found), but it hasn't worked. On reading up on sysstart commands, it seems there are only a few
> commands that are legal, and PURGE isn't one them....Does this seem consistent with people's
> observations ?
>
> The relevant system is in Tx, while I am in Oz, so it's difficult to see what happens at boot time, or
> to get anybody on site who knows what to look for to report back error msgs.
>
> Still surprises me that Houston can suffer so many power losses.....
>
> I have built a job containing the purge commands that I am streaming from sysstart, so I hope this
> will fix things in future.
>
> Regards,
>
> John Pitman
>
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