Re: Scratch install and Password

I think the default DST/SST user and password are QSECOFR.

Thanks,

Mark

Mark D. Walter
Senior Programmer/Analyst
CCX, Inc.
mwalter@xxxxxxxxxx
http://www.ccxinc.com


                                                                           
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Man...I meant to put that in....

V5R2M0

Pete


MWalter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>Which os version?
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>I started a scratch install of our "hand me down" 720 this morning and
>while it is slowly re-initializing the DASD (only 63 minutes to go...) I
>was reviewing (again) some of the FAQ's and steps to the process.
>(Knowledge base and the Backup and Recovery Guide)  A few questions
>occur to me that I couldn't find clear answers to:
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>I am assuming the passwords for QSECOFR and DST access get reset to
>defaults, correct?  What would those default user id's and passwords
>be.?  Looks like QSECOFR goes back to QSECOFR but the DST password is ?
>(I saw references to 11111111,22222222, and a few other flavors.)
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>This will be a first in about 20 years of Midrange experience.  I have
>never had to load from backup or even do a D M IPL before.  The systems
>we have had in the past show up all nicely loaded and outside of
>installing licensed programs and applying CUME's every once in a while
>we don't throw the big switch until we retire the thing a few years
>later.  That minimal maintenance is why we stick with the platform.
>Unlike Windows that can push you into BIOS settings, BIOS firmware
>upgrades, endless patches, subsequent blue screens of death, device
>driver updates and so on that FORCE you to become hardware/firmware/OS
>experts, I haven't had to deal with anything but LPP's and CUME's.  So I
>am now involved in lower level stuff that I haven't had to even think
>about before and I have a few basic questions:
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>What is the difference between DST and SST?  At some point I'll need to
>start DST and add the disks to an ASP (s) (I think).  DST is referred to
>quite a few times in the process so knowing when and how to use this
>seems important, yet I see SST referred to on this list quite often.
>What the difference?
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>After the LIC is installed, one set of scratch installations says push
>the power button twice and you are done.  Well, I want to install the OS
>from CD. So I put the first OS load CD in the drive and then still do a
>D M IPL ?   Or am I back to a normal IPL and the AS/400 will be smart
>enough to ask me to load the OS?
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>I guess you have to do this at least once in a iSeries lifetime just for
>the experience of it....
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>Pete
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