Re: How do to unattended IPL from control panel in V5R1M0?

> Always has been this way ...

otherwise any fool pushing the button ipl's it..
I watched a dp manager ipl a S34 while giving a tour, she pointed to the
machine,
hitting the green "Load" button.
jim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Neil Palmer" <neilp@dpslink.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 6:48 PM
Subject: Re: How do to unattended IPL from control panel in V5R1M0?


> When the front panel is selected for a Nornal IPL the power switch is
> disabled for the Power Off function.  Always has been this way back to the
> B10 in 1988.  You can select B M and then use the power switch (twice -
> first time asks for confirmation with  0  ? ) to power off.  THEN select
> (via 02) B N, THEN hit the power switch to power on for an unattended IPL.
>  It's always worked that way.
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> ...Neil
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> We are on V5R1M0 on a 9406-720.
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> This question follows the problem we had with SST passwords.  To
> automatically IPL the machine we had to physically pull the power cord and
> depend on the fact that the system value was set to do an unattended IPL
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> power loss/resumption.
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> I had tried to get this box to do an unattended IPL from the control panel
> and couldn't seem to.  I would set it to do a B Normal IPL and press the
> button and nothing would happen.  Only when I switched it to Manual would
> it
> power cycle into an attended IPL.
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> I know there HAS to be a way to do an unattended normal IPL from the
> control
> panel, unless IBM has totally lost it.
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> Regards,
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> Jim Langston
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