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["James H H Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On one of our customers' systems (a V5R2 box), we've found 
that the Telnet server is running into some sort of brick 
wall when creating new named devices, throwing CPF87D7s 
("Cannot automatically select virtual device/The VTM/FM 
cannot automatically select . . .")in the QSYSOPR *MSGQ. 
They have QAUTOCFG and QAUTORMT turned on, and QAUTOVRT 
set at 99.

The obvious hypothesis is that QAUTOVRT is being exceeded, 
which is supported by the fact that they've got a whole 
bunch of named and QPADEVxxxx devices sitting around, many 
of them varied off.

The weirdest part is that if I try and exceed the QAUTOVRT 
on our V4R5 box (albeit through the secured Telnet server, 
since we have the unsecured one disabled on that box), it 
just keeps going, defining one whole series well beyond 
the limit, and continuing to define virtual devices even 
if I set QAUTOVRT down to 10, well below the number we 
have defined.

So I tried our V4R4 box (which does have the unsecured 
Telnet server enabled), and it still gleefully creates 
named devices.


Can anybody explain what the #%!! is going on here? Where 
else I should be looking?

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Puzzled on my first day back on duty
JHHL