Handling initialization errors

If you cannot start QMF, there are several common fixes:

• Determine if all QMF users at your shop cannot get into QMF, or is it just one user.
• Check whether there are any messages on the terminal screen, and look up the explanation for the DSQDEBUG file message in the QMF Messages and Codes manual.
• If nothing appears on the screen and nothing is in DSQDEBUG, go into ISQL and issue a SELECT * FROM Q.ERROR__LOG and see if any entries appear during the time you were trying to access QMF.
• QMF initializes DB2 and GDDM during QMF initialization. If any DSN (DB2) and ADM (GDDM) error messages appear, look them up in the messages and codes book for the appropriate product.

  Check that the DB2 database is initialized and working properly. If all users are getting a type of ADMxxxx message upon start up, check that the base GDDM product is working correctly by running the GDDM IVPs.

OS/390 concerns

If any DSN (DB2) and ADM (GDDM) error messages appear, look them up in the QMF Messages and Codes manual.

Users should still look on the screen for more messages, and in DSQDEBUG and Q.ERROR__LOG for more information. If there are no other messages, have the user try to run the TSO command PROFILE MSGID WTPMSG and restart QMF.

VM concerns

Follow these instructions in addition to the general "Handling initialization errors" instructions.

• Check that the DB2 database is initialized and working properly. If all users are getting a type of ADMxxxx message upon start up, check that the base GDDM product is working correctly by running the GDDM IVPs.

  If users try to start QMF through ISPF, and QMF fails to start, the following message appears:

  INITIAL PGM RC ¬ = 0 | 4 -  A  M
     A  X = 16 .

• Users should still look on the screen for more messages, and in DSQDEBUG and Q.ERROR__LOG for more information. If there are no other messages, have the user try to run the CMS command SET EMSG ON and restart QMF.

VSE concerns

Check that the DB2 database is initialized and working properly.