Re: AS/400e 170 IPL failure

That's a bummer, but thanks for saving me from going down a blind alley.

I guess I'd better find the red book on doing a fresh install and
start reading it while I'm looking for media. Presumably as long as I
have the license keys from the current install I could create a new,
licensed install? I don't really care about any data that might or
might not be on it.

Robert

On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 3:00 PM, DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

NoCanDo boss. If you boot from Media (D) then the disk is read only so you
cannot maintain the passwords there.

AND if you SLIP the LIC in there it will maintain the passwords for service
tools on Disk not the ones from Media.

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 9/27/2016 3:56 PM, Robert wrote:

I've done that, Rob. The stumbling block is that I have neither the
user QSECOFR password, nor the DST one (it's not the default in either
case) and QSRV does not have security permissions for either the DST
or the system.

What I'm wondering, though, is whether I could start a D IPL, get to
the DST and log in as QSECOFR (which should now use the default
password if starting from media) and then change or reset the user
QSECOFR password. Then I could do a B IPL, and use the user QSECOFR
account to reset the DST QSECOFR account.

If that might work, then once I had completed my business in the DST,
would it be better to complete the IPL and do a regular shutdown or do
an irregular power off from the control panel?

On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 1:19 PM, Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Google this
how to reset qsecofr password
Numerous IBM documents on how to do that.


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From: Robert <robert626001@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 09/27/2016 01:53 PM
Subject: Re: AS/400e 170 IPL failure
Sent by: "MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>



Thanks for the replies, folks.

I did buy them, but I didn't spend much and it is hobbying around.

The one that IPLs is running V5R2 - I don't have a printer hooked up
to it, so for now I used DSPLICKEY to the screen and paged through it,
photographing each one. It's not ideal, but it's better than nothing.

I'm not sure how much more I can do with it, though. I can only log in
as QSRV - whoever had it last changed the QSECOFR passwords in both
places, so I don't have as many permissions as I'd like. I do have a
PC with some IBM software that looks like it was supposed to connect
to it, so I might dig out a hub and see if I can get them talking.

On the one that won't IPL, 27409021 appears to translate to: "Array
not functional due to present hardware configuration. Perform
“SDIOP-PIP20” on page 618". That refers to "missing devices" and, sure
enough, this machine has only one drive in the expansion chassis, as
opposed to three in the other one. So, I wouldn't be at all surprised
if that turned out to be the problem.

First, though, I need to find media. As previously stated, a D IPL is
the only thing that I can do. Amazingly, there's none to be had on
ebay!

Robert

On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 1:30 AM, Frederick Boniholmes
<freeofp5455@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Use them as a door stop.

Regards,
Fred
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