Perhaps the Piper could comment on this alleged "bug" in delay? -- bc
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Bob Cronin <bob.cro...@gmail.com> wrote: > FWIW ... A plumber in Germany came up with this and it seems to have > bypassed the problem for us: > > It's not a pipeserv problem - it's a bug in pipeline's delay stage (TOD > overrun in 2042). As a bypass please change the line with literal +99999 to > literal +59999 > > I tried it on our z/VM 5.4 Test System and it works. > > Note: > The actual line in the PIPESERV REXX module is: > > '\ literal +999999999', /* Never expiring timer */ > > This should be changed to: > > '\ literal +599999999', /* Never expiring timer */ > -- > bc > > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Jeffrey Forte <jfo...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > >> We had a system running this code that is used for our software >> distribution within IBM. We had a couple >> of 5.4 systems that were IPL'ed just last week. The server came up with >> no >> problems. After some emails were >> sent out about problem, I logged onto on of the server and IPL CMS. Would >> not start at that point. Worked fine on >> Monday and then it has been failing since Tuesday. As far as I can tell, >> nothing has changed. >> >> Jeff Forte >> z/VM System Support >> jfo...@us.ibm.com >> 720-396-1716 >> >> > Well, I am told that this pipeline has not been changed for years and it >> all >> > of a sudden stopped working the first time the virtual machine running >> it >> > was re-IPL'd this year (which just happened to be on 1/11 so I thought >> it >> > might be related as I have seen similar issues in other areas when >> "weird" >> > dates occur). Thoughts on where to start trying to debug it? I've >> literally >> > never seen PIPESERV until last night so am a bit out of my element. >> > -- >> > bc >> > >> > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 4:27 AM, Rob van der Heij <rvdh...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> > > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Shimon Lebowitz < >> shimon...@gmail.com> >> > > wrote: >> > > > And how exactly did my name get involved in this thread? :-) >> > > > Shimon >> > > >> > > Oh, my bad! I confused you with Hobart. We plumbers all look the >> > > same from behind :-) >> > > >> > > Sir Rob the Plumber >> > > >> > >
