Re: I hosting I safeguard for PWRDWNSYS

[Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, Holger.  One of the things I'm really intrigued by is the 
possibility of moving a tape drive between partitions programmatically.  
As you say, SSH to HMC opens up a world of capabilities.

On 12/29/2018 8:42 AM, Holger Scherer wrote:
> Besides the SSH > HMC capabilities (i like Larrys Idea but it is rather complex for first step),
> the simple way to safeguard PWRDWNSYS is a small exit CL program which sends
> a break message to QSYSOPR waiting for a special response (e.g. "yesiwill")
> just to avoid a quick GO POWER, 4
>
> The other thing is: using SSH to send commands to other systems from IBM i can give you millions
> of possibilities: control HMC, control Storage, control SVC etc...
>
> -h
>
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> > Am 29.12.2018 um 15:39 schrieb Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> >
> > Okay, now I get to really show my ignorance.  You say "reach out to the HMC".  This seems to imply that a program running on IBM i can execute a command on the HMC. This would make sense, and would be very cool.  I found a document that explains the process in detail, but it does seem to rely heavily on SSH, an area where I'm not exactly an expert.  (I know that's a large field, but be nice, it's the holidays.)
> >
> > http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas8N1019126
> >
> > So, is this document, though a bit long in tooth, still what I need to do?  Because it then opens up some other very important capabilities.
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