Re: V5R1 DST passwords

Al,

This is pure nit-picking on my part as well as comments from someone who has no 
absolute knowledge of what actually happens during DST time rather than a 
serious attack on your statements, so bear with me.

On Mon, 09 July 2001, barsa@barsaconsulting.com wrote:

> 
> When starting DST at IPL, system values do not exist.  They are a part of
> OS/400, which is not yet started.  It was possible when we were selling the
> M36 systems to have a system without OS/400 loaded all together.
> 
> I do agree, however, that they should have made some other facility to put
> this in the user control.

I find it hard to accept that the system values do not exist during DST at IPL. 
I can accept the the OS/400 interfaces to the values are not available, but the 
values themselves must surely "exist". Otherwise, the implication is that 
they're created from nothing during IPL.

Surely IBM knows how to locate and access the values. I mean, they wrote the 
parts of OS/400 that make them available. How can it be possible that it 
_can't_ be done during DST?

Tom Liotta


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