Re: Gain login access to old CISC AS/400e

Hi Patrik,

Patrik Schindler <poc@xxxxxxxxxx> hat am 24. März 2020 16:57 geschrieben:

I'm not sure if the numbering is deterministic or arbitrary, given the age and maybe numerous configuration changes since initial rollout.

allright, good to know. I don't know much about that.

Q1: Did you see any IPL status messages from IPL on the screen before the signon display appeared?

I am not sure, there were a lot of codes, which were shown? Or what do you specific mean?

Q2: Did you do a manual or normal IPL for trying the signon? I remember dimly that the system console login-even-if-profile-is-disabled only works when the IPL mode is set to manual via Panel. Maybe you even don't need to re-ipl but just set the panel to manual mode and try again via terminal.

I am sure, it was a manual IPL, but let's forget about that. I am not 100% sure.

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I did now did a full shutdown and pulled the plug.
After plugged the plug in back, the SRC showed 0000BBBB and shortly after that SRC 00003333.

As suggested, I pushed the button "Mode" multiple times, until light was at manual and pushed the white button to start manual IPL.

After some time, the SRC A6005004 shows up and stayed. The IBM 3488 showed a connection, but no output. Seems to stay forever. At this stage, if I press option 21, SRC A6005004 disappeared and shows instead 01 B. Also at this moment, I am getting output on my console and a menu of 4 options is being shown. Mainly option 1) with start IPL and option 3) start DST. See https://imgur.com/VjdKCco for image. That's odd about A6005004. I can't remember, that I had yesterday that SRC. Seems to have trouble with finding the console?

After that, I did now choose option 3) for DST, reset the password and return to that main menu. Did the same in DST, as in my first post described. Afterwards I choosed option 1) to start/continue IPL. During that IPL, I could see some sort of status on the console, that the IPL is doing. But not all the time. In a normal IPL, I don't have any output on my console until the login screen shows up!

When the manual IPL did complete, my login screen appeared. But SRC Code A9002000 was shown up. But a login with QSECOFR/QSECOFR (Yes, typed both with shift upper case) was not possible. I got again the CPF1394 error during login.

Cheers
Conrad