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rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Can't hurt to write down the system password on a piece of paper . . .
Unless system passwords have changed since V2, it ain't that easy. The usual effect is that the box will ask for a system password, and provide a set of parameters that you will have to send to IBM technical support, who will then have to generate a system password for you. Once it's been entered, there's no way to retrieve it, and even if there were, the box is going to want a different system password the next time.
The good news is that once you go into system password bypass, you have a few weeks (at least a month) of continuous up-time to come up with a system password (with daily reminders in the QSYSOPR message queue telling you how long you have) before it starts refusing to IPL.
On the boxes we don't have in continuous use, we keep them plugged in anyway, and have them scheduled to come up for an hour or two each week, then shut down, just to avoid this situation (and to keep the hard drives from locking up from lack of use). Even so, we've had to get two system passwords on our D02, in less than a decade, mostly resulting from ill-timed power outages. (You try getting a system password for a V2R3 D02! Makes pulling teeth see easy!)
-- JHHL
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