Re: restore to the cloud; system hung

Hi Jerry,

If you can configure the Service Tools Server with an IP address in your cloud subnet I suggest to use ACS with LAN Console.

On IBM Cloud Power Virtual Server you are disconnected after 5 minutes with no keyboard input , but with LAN Console this issue was fixed and we could even use Virtual Control Panel.

Good Luck

Diego Kesselman

El 31/08/2021, a las 15:07, Jerry Draper <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> escribió:

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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