Printing system information

 

Printing the system information provides valuable information about your system that will be useful during a system recovery. It is especially useful if you cannot use your SAVSYS media to recover and must use your distribution media.

Printing this information requires *ALLOBJ, *IOSYSCFG, and *JOBCTL authority and produces many spooled file listings. You may not need to print this information every time you perform a backup. However, you should print it whenever important information about your system changes.

1. Print your current disk configuration. This is essential if you plan to do a model upgrade and you are using mirrored protection. This information is also vital if you need to recover an independent ASP. Do the following:

   1. Sign on with a user profile that has *SERVICE special authority.

   2. Type STRSST on a command line and press the Enter key.

   3. Specify the service tools user ID and service tools password. These are case-sensitive.

   4. Select option 3 Work with disk units on the System Service Tools (SST) display.

   5. Select option 1 Display disk configuration on the Work with Disk Units display.

   6. Select option 3 Display disk configuration protection on the Display Disk Configuration display.

   7. Print the displays there may be several using the PRINT key for each display.

   8. Press F3 until you see the Exit System Service Tools display.

   9. On the Exit System Service Tools display, press the Enter key.

2. If you are using logical partitions, print the logical partition configuration information.

   1. From the primary partition, type STRSST on a command line and press Enter.

   2. If you are using SST, select option 5 Work with system partitions, and press Enter. If you are using DST, select option 11 Work with system partitions, and press Enter.

   3. From the Work With System Partitions menu, select option 1 Display partition information.

   4. To display all system I/O resources from the Display Partition Information menu, select option 5.

   5. At the Level of detail to display field, type *ALL to set the level of detail to ALL.

   6. Press F6 to print the system I/O configuration.

   7. Select option 1 and press Enter to print to a spooled file.

   8. Press F12 to return to the Display Partition Information menu.

   9. Select option 2 Display partition processing configuration.

   10. From the Display Partition Processing Configuration display, Press F6 to print the processing configuration.

   11. Press F12 to return to Display Partition Information display.

   12. Select option 7 Display communications options.

   13. Press F6 to print communication configuration.

   14. Select option 1 and press Enter to print to a spooled file.

   15. Return to a command line and print these three spooled files.

3. If you are operating in a clustered environment, print the cluster configuration information. Use the following commands to print cluster information:

   1. Display Cluster Information — DSPCLUINF DETAIL(*FULL) OUTPUT(*PRINT)

   2. Display Cluster Resource Group — DSPCRGINF CLUSTER(cluster-name) CRG(*LIST) OUTPUT(*PRINT)

4. If you have independent ASPs configured, record the relationship between the independent ASP name and number. You can find this information in iSeries™ Navigator. In the Disk Units folder, select Disk Pools.

5. Sign on with a user profile that has *ALLOBJ special authority, such as the security officer. The system lists information only if you have the proper authority. If you sign on as a user with less than *ALLOBJ authority, some of the listings in these steps may not be complete. You must also be enrolled in the system directory before you can print a list of all the folders on the system.

6. If you use the history log or if you have a requirement to keep it, do the following:

   1. Display the system log QHST. This automatically brings it up to date. Type:

      DSPLOG LOG(QHST) OUTPUT(*PRINT)

   2. Display all copies of the system log:

      WRKF FILE(QSYS/QHST*)

      Look at the list to verify that you saved all copies of the log that you may need later.

      The history (QHST) log contains information such as date created, and the last change date and time. To get more information about the history (QHST) log, select option 8 (Display file description) on the Work with Files display.

   3. To prevent confusion about the date of the log, select the Delete option on the Work with Files display. Delete all but the current copies of the system log. This step improves the performance of the SAVSYS command.

7. Print the system information. You can do this by two different methods:

   1. Using the GO SAVE command, on the Specify Command Defaults display, select Y at the Print system information prompt.

   2. Use the PRTSYSINF command.

   The following table describes the spooled files that the system creates. The PRTSYSINF command does not create empty spooled files. If some objects or types of information do not exist on your system, you may not have all of the files listed below.

   Table 1. Spooled Files Created by the system

   Spooled File Name	User Data	Description of Contents
   QPEZBCKUP	DSPBCKUPL	List of all user libraries
   QPEZBCKUP	DSPBCKUPL	List of all folders
   QSYSPRT	DSPSYSVAL	Current® settings for all system values
   QDSPNET	DSPNETA	Current settings for all network attributes
   QSYSPRT	DSPCFGL	Configuration lists
   QSYSPRT	DSPEDTD	User-defined edit descriptions ( a separate spooled file for each)
   QSYSPRT	DSPPTF	Details of all fixes that are installed on your system
   QPRTRPYL	WRKRYPLE	All reply list entries
   QSYSPRT	DSPRCYAP	Settings for access path recovery times
   QSYSPRT	DSPSRVA	Settings for service attributes
   QSYSPRT	DSPNWSSTG	Network server storage spaces information
   QSYSPRT	DSPPWRSCD	Power on/off schedule
   QSYSPRT	DSPHDWRSC	Hardware configuration reports (a separate spooled file for each resource type, such as *CMN or *LWS)
   QSYSPRT	WRKOPTCFG	Optical device descriptions (if your system has an optical device and optical support is started when you run the command)
   QSYSPRT	DSPRJECFG	Remote job entry configurations
   QPDSTSRV	DSPDSTSRV	SNADS configuration
   QPRTSBSD	DSPSBSD	Subsystem descriptions (a separate spooled file for each subsystem description on your system)
   QSYSPRT	DSPSFWRSC	Installed licensed programs (Software Resources List)
   QPRTOBJD	DSPOBJD	A list of all the journals on your system
   QPDSPJNA	WRKJRNA	The journal attributes for each journal that is not in the QUSRSYS library (a separate file for each journal). Typically, journals in the QUSRSYS library are IBM-supplied journals. If you have your own journals in the QUSRSYS library, you need to manually print information about those journals.
   QSYSPRT	CHGCLNUP	Settings for automatic cleanup
   QPUSRPRF	DSPUSRPRF	Current values for the QSECOFR user profile
   QPRTJOBD	DSPJOBD	Current values for the QDFTJOBD job description
   QPJOBLOG	PRTSYSINF	The job log for this job1
   1 On your system, this spooled file might be in the QEZJOBLOG output queue.

8. Print a list of directories in the root directory.

   DSPLNK OBJ('/*') OUTPUT(*PRINT)

9. Print any IBM-supplied objects that you have modified, such as the QSYSPRT print file.

10. If you maintain a CL program that contains your configuration information, use the Retrieve Configuration Source (RTVCFGSRC) command to ensure that the CL program is current.

    RTVCFGSRC CFGD(*ALL) CFGTYPE(*ALL) +
              SRCFILE(QGPL/QCLSRC) +
              SRCMBR(SYSCFG)

11. Print these spooled files. Keep this information with your backup log or your save system media for future reference. If you choose not to print the lists, use the Copy Spooled File (CPYSPLF) command to copy them to database files. See Save spooled files for information on how to do this. Make sure that the database files are in a library that is saved when you perform the Save menu option.

 

Parent topic:

Performing a complete save using the GO SAVE checklist

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Performing a complete save using the GO SAVE checklist