Jerry,

  We have seen the scheduler lock up on ptf 12 & 13 as well.  On 13 we
found a problem with the last scheduled admin command (a file was
archived).  You might look at the last successful scheduled event.  Someone
else reports that the scheduler process is the same for the backup and
administrative events.  I have no knowledge that disputes this statement,
however, I have see administrative events stop being scheduled while backup
events continued to be.

Good luck,
  Dan T.

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> From: Jerry Lawson <jlawson AT THEHARTFORD DOT COM>
> From: Jerry Lawson <jlawson AT THEHARTFORD DOT COM>
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: A strange weekend.....
> Date: Monday, September 08, 1997 1:54 PM
>
> Date:     September 8, 1997             Time: 1:20 PM
> From:     Jerry Lawson
>           The Hartford Insurance Group
> (860)  547-2960          jlawson AT thehartford DOT com
>
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> I had a strange weekend - what was it Jerry Garcia used to say "What a
> I had a strange weekend - what was it Jerry Garcia used to say "What a
> strange journey this has been"?
>
> We began having TCP/IP troubles on Friday - we could establish sessions,
but
> data transfers would hang after a few bytes were sent - they would
timeout
> either as a communications timeout, or an idle wait, depending on when
TCP
> decided to stop.  This didn't clear until 2:00 AM, when they bounced
TCP/IP,
> but operations didn't recycle ADSM, so we were out of the water until mid
> morning Saturday when I happened to check it.
>
> Nothing much unusual there, but here is what had me confused.  Sometime
on
> Friday, all of our Admin schedules stop executing - no indication as to
why.
> Around noon on Friday, I had operations recycle ADSM, which went
> successfully.  When it came up, an admin schedule that was in the middle
of
> its window kicked off, executed, and reported back a successful
completion.
> I thought the problem was solved, but later Friday, I checked again, and
the
> admin scheduler was out again.
>
> I cannot think of any relationship between  TCP/IP communications, and
admin
> schedules.  Does anyone have any ideas?
>
> When I discovered the problem on Saturday, I again had them restart ADSM,
and
> again it seemed to take off - reconnected to TCP/IP, and admin schedules
> seemed to be working.  Later that evening, though, not only had I lost
> communications again, but console traffic seemed to be gone as well.
Since
> we had an IPL scheduled for 7:00 AM Sunday, we decided to let it go, and
> since the IPL, all seems to be fine.  We did have a bad tape - actually 2
> tapes with the same TSN, but that didn't seem to contribute to this
problem.
> This was all under release 12 of the MVS server - We are now under level
13,
> as it had been one of the planned upgrades on the IPL on Sunday morning.
>
> Anyone else see strange things like this?
>
>
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>                                                      Jerry
>                                                      Jerry
>
> Insanity is doing the same thing over and over..and expecting the results
to
> be different - Anon.