Re: Scratch install and Password

[Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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

V5R2M0

Pete


MWalter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Which os version?
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> Thanks,
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> Mark
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> Mark D. Walter
> Senior Programmer/Analyst
> CCX, Inc.
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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?
>
> 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....
>
> Pete
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