Re: SAVLICPGM changing QBRMS?

Tom Liotta wrote:

fbocch2595@xxxxxxx wrote:

Hi folks, I ran green screen cmd SAVLICPGM and selected all licpgm's (I didn't want to run SAVSYS) and after it completed my audit report shows that usrprf QBRMS was changed to password of *NONE. Any idea why that is or if it's possible that running cmd SAVLICPGM would change usrprf QBRMS?

Frank:

I can't answer "Why?" but I can tell you it's definitely possible that SAVLICPGM could change a password.

It's common for LPPs to have exit programs that are called before and/or after SAVLICPGM, RSTLICPGM, DLTLICPGM and CHKPRDOPT. Setting attributes of user profiles associated with an LPP is a kind of action that such an exit program would reasonably do.

Whether setting password to *NONE makes sense for QBRMS...? I don't know. If that's an expected attribute, then it _might_ have been coded by the developer of the BRMS exit programs.

One minor additional note...

AFAIK, SAVLICPGM and SAVSYS are practically unrelated. Except for OS/400 and LIC, I don't think much overlap exists between the two. For any given LPP (other than 5722SS1), you need to run SAVLICPGM if you expect ever to RSTLICPGM.

Even a full-system save doesn't exactly give you RSTLICPGM capability. Of course, if you do a full-system restore from a full-system save, you pretty much get it all back; but that's a hard way to go if you only want to restore a particular product.

Again, that's all "AFAIK". Others might have better info to add.

Tom