Chapter 128 VHS (Virtual Hometerm Subsystem) Messages

Cause  The VHS generates this critical message when an application goes into Inspect and Inspect prompts the VHS process.

Effect  A save file is created, and the program is stopped.

Recovery  Advise software personnel of this error message. Use the saveabend file created to fix the application’s problem. See the primary log file for more information about the problem.

Cause  The VHS generates this critical message when an application goes into Inspect. Inspect prompts the VHS process, and the VHS tries to create a saveabend file but encounters an error.

Effect  No saveabend file is created.

Recovery  Advise software personnel of this error message. More information about the problem is available in the primary log file. See Appendix B, for a definition of the specified error. For more detailed information including recovery actions, see the Guardian Procedure Errors and Messages Manual.

Cause  The VHS generates this critical message when it is prompted by Inspect and sends a command (OBEY) file to Inspect.

Effect  The VHS process supplies a command file to Inspect.

Recovery  Advise software personnel of this error message. See the primary log file for more information about the problem.

Cause  The VHS generates this critical message when a user enters the INSPECT TERM command in PATHCOM to invoke the Inspect process to debug a SCREEN COBOL program running on a Pathway/TS terminal.

Effect  The VHS process supplies a command or insert in the previous message file to Inspect.

Recovery  Advise software personnel of this message. See the primary log file for more information about the problem.

Cause  The VHS generates this critical message when it is prompted by Debug.

Effect   The VHS process supplies commands to display register values and stop the application.

Recovery  Look at the results of these commands in the primary log file and correct the application problem.

Cause  The VHS generates this message when it receives a user display.

Effect  The primary log file shows the user display.

Recovery  Informational message only; no corrective action is needed.

Cause  The VHS generates this action-attention message when it is prompted by an application.

Effect  The prompt file contains the application prompt text.

Recovery  Use the VHS Prompt Browser facility to select and answer the application prompt.

Cause  The VHS generates this action-completion message when a user answers the application prompt.

Effect  The VHS sends the reply to the application and deletes the prompt from the prompt file.

Recovery  Informational message only; no corrective action is needed.

Cause  The VHS generates this message when the VHS has successfully started.

Effect  The VHS is started.

Recovery  Informational message only; no corrective action is needed.

Cause  The VHS generates this message when a new VHS process in the backup processor has been successfully created.

Effect  A VHS process in the backup processor has been created.

Recovery  Informational message only; no corrective action is needed.

Cause  The VHS generates this message when it has created a new primary log file.

Effect  The VHS process created a new primary log file.

Recovery  Informational message only; no corrective action is needed.

Cause  A VHS primary log file rollover occurred.

Effect  The VHS created a new primary log file.

Recovery  Informational message only; no corrective action is needed.

Cause  The VHS generates this critical message when it cannot create a backup process because of a NEWPROCESS error.

Effect  The primary VHS process retries this error unless the NEWPROCESS error indicates that the backup processor is down. In this case, the VHS tries to create a new backup 10 seconds after it receives the CPU UP system message for the backup processor. For errors other than processor down, the VHS primary process waits for 10 seconds and retries; if this first attempt fails, the next attempt occurs after a 20-second delay. Thereafter, the primary process attempts to create a new backup process every 20 seconds.

Recovery  See Appendix C, for information about the specified error. For more detailed information including recovery actions, see the Guardian Procedure Errors and Messages Manual.

Cause  The VHS backup process has stopped.

Effect  The VHS primary process attempts to create a new backup process after a one-minute delay.

Recovery  Informational message only; no corrective action is needed.

Cause  The processor in which the backup process was running has failed.

Effect  The primary VHS process does not attempt to create a backup until it receives the CPU UP system message for its backup processor.

Recovery  Follow the recommended procedure for a processor failure.

Cause  The VHS backup process abended.

Effect  The VHS primary process attempts to create a new backup process after a 10‑second delay. If the VHS primary process cannot create the backup process after 10 seconds, it retries every 20 seconds.

Recovery  Informational message only; no corrective action is needed.

Cause  The VHS generates this critical message after a takeover by the VHS backup process. The primary VHS process or the processor in which it ran has failed.

Effect  If the primary VHS process has failed, an attempt is made to create a new backup. In the case of a processor failure, a new backup is created after receipt of a CPU UP system message by the new primary process.

Recovery  If the primary VHS process abended, investigate the error message log to determine why.

Cause  The VHS generates this critical message when an error occurs during a checkpoint operation.

Effect  The VHS backup process has received an input/output (I/O) error during a checkpoint operation. The VHS backup process is stopped, and an attempt is made to create a new backup process after a 10-second delay. Resource allocation failures (errors 30 through 37) might indicate that the primary processor or backup processor is overloaded.

Recovery  See Appendix B, for a definition of the specified error. For more detailed information including recovery actions, see the Guardian Procedure Errors and Messages Manual.

For errors 30 through 37, free up system resources. If this does not correct the problem or results in a different error, contact your support representative and provide all relevant information as follows:

If your local operating procedures require contacting the Global Mission Critical Solution Center (GMCSC), supply your system number and the numbers and versions of all related products as well.

Cause  The VHS generates this critical event message when the backup VHS process is unable to open a file previously opened by the primary process.

Effect  The primary VHS process determines that its backup process is malfunctioning. The VHS process stops its backup process and attempts to create a new backup after a 10‑second delay.

Recovery  See Appendix B, for a definition of the specified error. For more detailed information including recovery actions, see the Guardian Procedure Errors and Messages Manual.

For errors 30 through 37, free up system resources. If this does not correct the problem or results in a different error, contact your support representative and provide all relevant information as follows:

If your local operating procedures require contacting the Global Mission Critical Solution Center (GMCSC), supply your system number and the numbers and versions of all related products as well.

Cause  The VHS generates this critical message when it is unable to access the primary log file.

Effect  The VHS continues processing.

Recovery  See Appendix B, for a definition of the specified error. For more detailed information including recovery actions, see the Guardian Procedure Errors and Messages Manual.

Cause  The VHS generates this action-completion message when the processor of an application is down or when an application stops communicating with the VHS.

Effect  The VHS process deletes this application entry in its internal opener table.

Recovery  Follow the recommended procedure for a processor failure, or correct the problem that has made the applications unavailable.

Cause  The VHS generates this message when it has created a new primary-log alternate‑key file.

Effect  The VHS continues processing.

Recovery  Informational message only; no corrective action is needed.

Cause  The VHS generates this critical message when it is unable to access the prompt file.

Effect  The VHS continues processing. If the VHS was trying to add a new prompt in the prompt file, the new prompt is rejected and the VHS returns error 2 (operation not allowed) to the application.

Recovery  See Appendix B, for a definition of the specified error. For more detailed information including recovery actions, see the Guardian Procedure Errors and Messages Manual.

Cause  The VHS generates this message when it has created a new prompt file. The prompt file contains the name of the current primary log file for this VHS environment in its first record, and other records contain all outstanding prompts for this VHS environment.

Effect  The VHS creates a new prompt file.

Recovery  Informational message only; no corrective action is needed.

Cause  The VHS generates this message when it has created a new prompt alternate-key file.

Effect  The VHS creates a new prompt alternate-key file.

Recovery  Informational message only; no corrective action is needed.

Cause  The VHS generates this action-completion message when it restarts and finds outstanding prompts not processed by the previous VHS process that had the same VHS process name.

Effect  The VHS continues processing.

Recovery  Informational message only; no corrective action is needed.

Cause  The VHS generates this action-completion message when it detects that a prompting application has closed the VHS process without receiving the reply from the VHS for its prompt.

Effect  The VHS deletes the outstanding prompt from its prompt file.

Recovery  Informational message only; no corrective action is needed.

Cause  The VHS generates this action-completion message when it cannot reply to the application because the application is unavailable.

Effect  The VHS continues processing.

Recovery  Correct the problem that has made the application unavailable.

Cause  The VHS Browser generates this message when an input/output (I/O) error occurs on the configuration file.

Effect  The VHS Browser server stops.

Recovery  See Appendix B, for a definition of the specified error. For more detailed information including recovery actions, see the Guardian Procedure Errors and Messages Manual.

Cause  The VHS Browser generates this message when an invalid line format is read in the configuration file.

Effect  The VHS Browser server stops.

Recovery  Correct the line in the configuration file with a valid line format.

Cause  The VHS process was unable to log an EMS event to its alternate collector.

Effect  There is no effect on the running process. If a new process is started, it logs its message to the default collector.

Recovery  Take action according to the file-system error contained in the EMS event.

Cause  An unknown language was found as a section name in the VHS Inspect file. The corresponding section is skipped. VHS continues loading the VHS Inspect file.

Effect  The corresponding section is not loaded.

Recovery  Edit the file and correct the line specified in the event message. VHS will automatically reload the Inspect file when another application traps into Inspect. VHS performs the default actions SAVE and EXIT for that section. The language should not be selected from the list provided in the VHS User’s Guide.

Cause  An invalid file name was found as a section name in the VHS Inspect file.

Effect  The corresponding section was not loaded. VHS continues loading the VHS Inspect file.

Recovery  Edit the file and correct the line specified in the EMS event. VHS will automatically reload the Inspect file when another application traps into Inspect.

Cause  An invalid process name was found as a section name in the VHS Inspect file.

Effect  The corresponding section was not loaded.

Recovery  Edit the file and correct the line specified in the EMS event. VHS will automatically reload the Inspect file when another application traps into Inspect.

Cause  Two messages with the same name were found in the VHS Inspect file.

Effect  The duplicate section is not loaded.

Recovery  Edit the file and correct the line specified in the EMS event or remove the entire duplicate section. VHS will automatically reload the Inspect file when another application traps into Inspect.

Cause  The total of bytes in the VHS Inspect file exceeds 5000, which is the maximum limit.

Effect  This section is skipped and it tries to load the next section.

Recovery  Edit the file and remove unnecessary commands or sections. VHS will automatically reload the Inspect file when another application traps into Inspect.

Cause  The VHS Inspect file contains too many sections. The limit is 100 sections.

Effect  All sections after the 100th section are skipped. The message specifies the last section that has been loaded.

Recovery  Edit the file and remove unnecessary sections. The number of sections must not exceed 100. VHS will automatically reload the Inspect file when another application traps into Inspect.

Cause  If the VHS Inspect file is changed while VHS processes Inspect prompts, VHS stops processing those Inspect prompts for all applications and generates this event.

Effect  VHS stops processing those Inspect prompts and performs the default operations Save and Exit.

Recovery  Informational message only; no corrective action is needed. Do not modify the Inspect file during Inspect processing.

Cause  One Inspect process can handle up to 10 different applications; the number of Inspect prompts exceeded 10.

Effect  VHS does not accept the application prompts over 10 for the same process.

Recovery  Stop some of the Inspect processes that are running.

Cause  The VHS opener table has reached the value of the OPEN-TABLE-THRESHHOLD parameter. The default value for this parameter is 99%.

Effect  It has no effect on the running process.

Recovery  Informational message only; no corrective action is required.

Cause  An invalid parameter was found in a section of the VHS Inspect file.

Effect  The corresponding section is not loaded.

Recovery  Edit the file and correct the line number displayed in the event. Assign only valid parameters to the section and try to restart Inspect. VHS will automatically reload the Inspect file when another application traps into Inspect. VHS performs the default actions Save and Exit for the corresponding section.

Cause  A problem occurred when trying to reload the VHS Inspect file; the Inspect file specified in the VHSSTART file is not available.

Effect  This causes VHS to abend.

Recovery  Stop the VHS process. Load the Inspect file and restart VHS. Also verify the VHS Inspect file condition and security.

Cause  The Inspect file specified in the VHSSTART file cannot be opened.

Effect  This causes VHS to abend.

Recovery  Stop the VHS process. Make sure the INSPECT file, as specified in VHSSTART, can be opened and restart VHS.

Cause  The Inspect file specified in the VHSSTART file is not readable.

Effect  The Inspect file is not loaded.

Recovery  The Inspect file might be corrupt. Create a new Inspect file.

Cause  The attributes of _EMS_COLLECTOR cannot be altered.

Effect  There is no effect on the running process.

Recovery  Stop VHS and restart it.

Cause  The VHS Inspect file is reloaded.

Effect  It has no effect on the running process.

Recovery  Informational message only; no corrective action is needed.

Cause  An application has cancelled a previous prompt by sending a Cancel message.

Effect  It has no effect on the running processes.

Recovery  Informational message only; no corrective action is needed.

Cause  VHS has received a second prompt from an application without sending a reply to the first one. VHS deleted the first prompt from its prompt file.

Effect  It has no effect on the running process.

Recovery  Informational message only; no corrective action is needed.

Cause  An invalid keyword was found in the VHS Inspect file.

Effect  The corresponding section is not loaded.

Recovery  VHS will automatically reload the Inspect file when another application traps into Inspect. VHS performs the default actions Save and Exit for the corresponding section. The keywords must be selected from the list of keywords specified from the list of keywords in the VHS User’s Guide.

Cause  A line from the VHS Inspect file has more than 132 characters.

Effect  Only the first 132 characters are recognized and the rest of the command is ignored.

Recovery  The line should not contain more than 132 characters. VHS will automatically reload the Inspect file when another application traps into Inspect.

Cause  An invalid value was given for the parameter AUTOMATIC-INSPECT-PROCESSING in the VHS Inspect file. Expected value is ON or OFF.

Effect  The corresponding section is skipped. VHS continues loading the VHS Inspect file.

Recovery  Edit the file and correct the line specified in the event message. VHS will automatically reload the Inspect file when another application traps into Inspect.

Cause  The VHS Inspect file is loaded.

Effect  It has no effect on the running processes.

Recovery  Informational message only; no corrective action is needed.

Cause  A problem occurred while reloading the VHS Inspect file. The Inspect file cannot be loaded.

Effect  It has no effect on the running processes.

Recovery  Informational message only, no corrective action needed.

Cause  In the VHS Inspect file, a section name, process, or program file name is a remote process or program file name. VHS only accepts a local process name and local program name. A remote section is present in the Inspect file.

Effect  The corresponding section is not loaded.

Recovery  VHS performs the default actions Save and Exit for the corresponding section. VHS will automatically reload the Inspect file when another application traps into Inspect. For more detail on the format of the Inspect file, see the NonStop Virtual Hometerm Subsystem (VHS) Manual.

Cause  In the VHS Inspect file, a section name for the PROGRAMFILE keyword specified a file name that does not exist. The file must exist.

Effect  The corresponding section is not loaded.

Recovery  VHS performs the default actions Save and Exit for the corresponding section. VHS will automatically reload the Inspect file when another application traps into Inspect. For more detail on the format of the Inspect file, see the NonStop Virtual Hometerm Subsystem (VHS) Manual.

Cause  One or more characters are found following a section name in the VHS Inspect file.

Effect  The corresponding section is not loaded.

Recovery  VHS performs the default actions Save and Exit for the corresponding section. VHS will automatically reload the Inspect file when another application traps into Inspect. For more detail on the format of the Inspect file, see the NonStop Virtual Hometerm Subsystem (VHS) Manual.

Cause  An application stopped communicating with VHS. The VHS process deletes this application entry in its internal opener table.

Effect  The process is deleted from the opener table and it can no longer be applied.

Recovery  No recovery action can be performed.

Cause  An application entered Inspect. VHS received a message from Inspect or sent a message to Inspect and still does not know which application is trapped into Inspect. The text received from or sent to Inspect is the text of the message. This event message is generated only when the VHS-GUI-MODE parameter is set to ON.

Effect  It has no effect on the running process.

Recovery  Informational message only; no corrective action is needed.

Cause  An application entered Inspect. VHS received a message from Inspect or sent a message to Inspect and knows which application is trapped into Inspect. The text received from or sent to Inspect is the text of this message. This event message is generated only when the VHS-GUI-MODE parameter is set to ON.

Effect  It has no effect on the running process.

Recovery  Informational message only; no corrective action is needed.

Cause  The applied file is in SCOBOL, but the state of the VHS is not and the GUI mode is active.

Effect  There is no effect on the running process.

Recovery  Advise software personnel of this event message. More information about the problem is available in the primary log file.

Cause  An application entered Debug. VHS received a message from Debug or sent a message to Debug. The text received from or sent to Debug is the text of this message. This event message is generated only when the VHS-GUI-MODE parameter is set to ON.

Effect  It has no effect on the running process.

Recovery  Advise software personnel of this event message. More information about the problem is available in the primary log file.

Cause  A prompt has been pending for at least the value of the PROMPT-EVENT-RESEND-DELAY parameter (in minutes).

Effect  It has no effect on the running process.

Recovery  Informational message only; no corrective action is needed.

Cause  The VHS generates this critical message when it encounters an internal error.

Effect  The VHS primary process stops. When the VHS is just starting, some verifications are made. If an internal error occurs in those verifications, the VHS primary process stops and the VHS is not available because the backup process was not started. If an internal error occurs when the backup process is running, then the primary process is stopped and a takeover by the backup process occurs.

Recovery  Contact your support representative and provide all relevant information as follows:

If your local operating procedures require contacting the Global Mission Critical Solution Center (GMCSC), supply your system number and the numbers and versions of all related products as well.