# Adasav online save sometimes doesn't work

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**Category:** Forum\
**Tags:** Adabas-Natural, Adabas, Adabas-on-Mainframes\
**Created:** [June 2, 2025, 5:24pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/adasav-online-save-sometimes-doesnt-work/310504 "2025-06-02T17:24:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Evgen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/85f322/32.png) [@Evgen](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Evgen)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2025, 5:24pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/adasav-online-save-sometimes-doesnt-work/310504/1 "2025-06-02T17:24:15Z")

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Adabas 6.2.3  
DUAL PLOG  
Adasav online save for the same several files, freezes at start of work.  
DDPRINT not complete or not exist.  
DDDRUCK not exist.  
ADAICK - no errors  
ADAVAL - no errors

DDKARTE:  
ADASAV BUFNO=3  
ADASAV FILE=fn, fn, fn…

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**Author:** ![Douglas\_Kelly](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/user_avatar/techcommunity.softwareag.com/douglas_kelly/32/102_2.png) [@Douglas\_Kelly](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Douglas_Kelly)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2025, 7:47pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/adasav-online-save-sometimes-doesnt-work/310504/2 "2025-06-02T19:47:21Z")

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are you on Mainframe or OpenSystems? v6.2 on the mainframe is decades old. Even on OpenSystems, it is not a supported release, being about 5 years out of support.

Please clarify what you are working on. Are there any operating system messages associated with the task you are attempting to run?

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**Author:** ![Neil\_Beesley9](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/user_avatar/techcommunity.softwareag.com/neil_beesley9/32/37232_2.png) [@Neil\_Beesley9](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Neil_Beesley9)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2025, 11:17pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/adasav-online-save-sometimes-doesnt-work/310504/3 "2025-06-02T23:17:32Z")

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It’s very old… like me. I worked on its development in '95 or maybe earlier.

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**Author:** ![Evgen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/85f322/32.png) [@Evgen](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Evgen)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2025, 3:36am UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/adasav-online-save-sometimes-doesnt-work/310504/4 "2025-06-03T03:36:33Z")

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Adabas for mainframes, ZVM 4.4.  
I am trying to run adasav for several files. For one set of files it works, for another it doesn’t.  
OS - no messages  
ADABAS - no messages  
DBA console - something like “ADASAV start with save tape nnnn…” and it freezes here and there is no access to any file.

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**Author:** ![Douglas\_Kelly](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/user_avatar/techcommunity.softwareag.com/douglas_kelly/32/102_2.png) [@Douglas\_Kelly](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Douglas_Kelly)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2025, 5:16pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/adasav-online-save-sometimes-doesnt-work/310504/5 "2025-06-04T17:16:59Z")

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Check your JES, SYSLOG messages (or whatever the equivalent system messages area is for z/VM). I would guess the OS is waiting for something: dataset (something else has it open?), disk (space, volume…), tape mount…

You’re on an antique OS, so it’s hard to guess what it is waiting for.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/original/3X/c/d/cd19967bb605d28a72d77eb83a1cae22f3df2eb8.svg) [@system](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2025, 5:17pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/adasav-online-save-sometimes-doesnt-work/310504/6 "2025-12-01T17:17:12Z")

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