Since you ask, Bob.
I'd rather leave this list than insult you in public.
Might I gently suggest, however, that you read the append in the light of
the TOD clock rollover in 2041?
j.
On 13 January 2011 16:45, Bob Cronin <[email protected]> wrote:
> Perhaps the Piper could comment on this alleged "bug" in delay?
> --
> bc
>
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Bob Cronin <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]>
> 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
> >> [email protected]
> >> 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 <[email protected]>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> > > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Shimon Lebowitz <
> >> [email protected]>
> >> > > 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
> >> > >
> >>
> >
> >
>
