If I remember correctly, that watertower is actually in Northern California. Railtown 1897, in Jamestown near Yosemite.
My biggest problem with FDCs is that if I'm working late and logged in on the mqm id, then forget to log out, when that connection times out mq generates an FDC and I get paged after getting to sleep as I have a cron that checks for new FDC files and pages for production systems. You'd think I'd learn not to forget.
Bill
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I can make it through a day with out an FDC file, but I never could have
made it through puberty with out Petticoat Junction! Ya think that water
tower is anywhere in Georgia?
Couldn't resist in having a little fun!
Bill Anderson
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OH CRAP I've dated myself!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OH Well I'll just hop in the GENERAL and scoot over to Petticote Junction
to
hide in the water tower with the girls!!!!!!!!
bobbee
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>Watch yourself there! HuggyBear is a personal friend of mine. A couple of
>detectives might come looking for you soon.
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>AAAHHHHH!!! But then the IBM addiction would subside. Not a good thing for
>a
>pusher!! Remember the guy "Huggy Bear" from that show long ago. I believe
>he
>now works for IBM as their Marketing Management Director. (He still has
the
>outlandish outfits on too00. Upsets prople at the board meetings!!!). And
>you wonder where all this good marketing comes from!!
>
>Going back to something less serious. FDC can be like rabbits. BUT the
will
>be caused by some problem somewhere. I don't think the code has a random
>FDC
>generator built in. "FULL TIME JOB" maybe and maybe not. I just think it
is
>better to err on the side of caution. I also don't think you could
possibly
>track and debug all the FDC but it is nice to be warned that they are
>occuring. ESP when you start getting repeated EMAILs righ after you did an
>upgrade or installed some idiots application.
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> bobbee
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> >I second the motion on the new manual thing. Help me help myself, and I
> >don't have to clog up the Passport Advantage line with yet another phone
> >call
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> >Bill Anderson
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> >You know, I was thinking to myself looking at these FDCs "Holy cr*p,
this
> >whole place is about to fall apart right before my eyes!!!". But I went
>and
> >actually looked at all my prod QMs. About 40% have no FDCs. The other
40%
> >have some, but only at the rate of maybe 1 or 2 every 3 months. A couple
> >here and there were weird (like 30 FDCs in a minute a year ago and
>nothing
> >since).
> >
> >The queue managers that are running on Windows 2000 machines under
>control
> >of MSCS are loaded with FDCs. Like 10 or 20 a month.
> >
> >I am going to focus on those, even though "nothing" is wrong. Maybe IBM
> >will
> >be able to help me flip a switch somewhere which would cause 90% of
those
> >to
> >go away. I just hesitate to do it because nothing seems wrong, and this
> >could turn into a full time job. Oh well, look out bullet, cuz I'm about
>to
> >bite ya!
> >
> >
> >If I can get it to the point where we only see 1 or 2 FDCs a month, I
>think
> >an email with the servername in question when an FDC is thrown is a good
> >idea. A great idea would be the ability to actually understand FDCs. A
>new
> >manual perhaps? Please? :)
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >I don't know. I have had sites where I showed up the first day and the
>file
> >systems were pretty full because of the FDC issues. But as things got
>under
> >control and the environment stabilized the issue of FDC's showing up
>became
> >became lees of an issue if non-existent. I don't recall being iat a site
> >where the FDC continued to run "out of hand" after making the
environment
> >"well".
> >
> > bobbee
> >
> >
> > >From: Bill Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> > >Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 13:20:17 -0500
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> > >I just had to ring in on this one. The thing is, the queue manager
>seems
> >to
> > >have sort of a "hair trigger" in regard to what sort of problems cause
>it
> > >to write an FDC file. I find them often, and have no way of quickly
> > >determining why it (more commonly they) are there. If I got serious
>about
> > >hunting them down every time, I could make a career out of It. It
>doesn't
> > >help any that little or no documentation exists on how to effectively
> > >troubleshoot using one. On more than one occasion I have opened a
>ticket
> > >with IBM to help me solve a problem where FDC files were produced, and
> >had
> > >a 2nd level support person tell me to send them, but they don't often
> > >contain much useful data.
> > >
> > >I do think it is wise to automate handling them. I need to find the
>time
> >to
> > >write a script that not only finds them but potentially parses them
and
> > >write things like the date / time stamp, program name, and probe
> > >description (just to name a few) to a log file that could be imported
> >into
> > >a spread sheet. Then you could look for trends. If something specific
> > >continues to occur over and over, that would be justification to
launch
>a
> > >science project to determine why, and fix it.
> > >
> > >I would love to know enough about FDC files to write a program, or
Perl
> > >script that could parse hundreds of them and write a report based on
>some
> > >key data. But that's not likely to wind up on my project plan list any
> >time
> > >soon!
> > >
> > >
> > >Cheers
> > >
> > >Bill Anderson
> > >Senior Systems Analyst
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