Re: restore to the cloud; system hung

[Jerry Draper <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

MicroSoft/Skytap has a 5250 console emulator that allows for DSP01 
console access but not through the normal ACS route.

(the 5250 emulator is a 1980's vintage with dismal functionality; no ten 
key pad; F-Keys maybe work maybe not; tab works but not backtab; no 
cut/paste, etc.)

I can do a sys request and do various options; option 2 responds with 
"End request is not allowed"

On other cloud services we are not allowed DSP01 or HMC access for 
obvious reasons (it would give us access to other LPARs/systems.

With this funky DSP01 at least we can put the system in a restricted 
state, pop up DST, etc.

Jerry

On 8/31/2021 12:58 PM, Evan Harris wrote:
> 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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