If a process attempts to initiate a task at a remote host that is nonexistent or currently unavailable, the initiation fails, but the initiating process continues normally. The task variable of the task stores a STATUS value of -2 (BADINITIATE), a HISTORYTYPE of 4 (DSEDV), and a HISTORYCAUSE of 13 (NETWORKCAUSEV). The HISTORYREASON value varies depending on the exact reason the host is unreachable.

A pair of messages such as the following is displayed when this error occurs:

6749 TASK NOT INITIATED AT TESTSYS: ERROR - HOST NOT REACHABLE
6749 FOREIGN TASK INITIATION FAILED @ 103A:0001:4 @ (00000234)*