Re: restore to the cloud; system hung

[Evan Harris <auctionitis@xxxxxxxxx>]

Crazy idea.... when you get the message display hit system request 2. I am
wondering if its maybe an initial program erroring out because something is
missing.

Who are you signing as ?
Do you have console access ?

On Wed, 1 Sep 2021, 05:35 Jerry Draper, <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> And so the saga continues.....now a circus; not a rodeo.
>
> Never seen anything like this before (in 45 years of IBM midrange).
>
> We are vetting a cloud based P9 system (Microsoft SkyTap).
>
> The cloud system is provisioned at V7R3; our machine is at V7R1.
>
> There is no tape available so we did a save sys 21 to multi volume
> virtual tape image catalog and FTPed the images to the cloud.  Each
> volume is 25GB.  We were not confident we could FTP a single 625GB file.
>
> We "converted" the multi-volume virtual tape image catalog to a single
> volume using DUPTAP.  Now we can restore anything from the single volume
> virtual tape image catalog.  Great solution (thanks IBM).
>
> We restored user profiles and authorities omitting any profile starting
> with Q (RSTUSRPRF).
>
> We started a restore of a list of non-IBM libraries.  The job failed and
> the system is at signon display.
>
> Now we cannot signon to the system.
>
> We have ended/restarted the system.
>
> We get a signon display and  when we signon we get a break message
> display messages screen saying the RSTLIB job failed (all non IBM lib
> restore from a list of libs).
>
> No matter what key we press we are immediately signed off the system.
>
> Reporting in.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jerry
>
>
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