Re: recovering DST password

If you cannot bring the system up, Normal, into IBM i to use CHGDSTPWD, then it’s very likely you will need to restore (slip install, do NOT initialize the system) the licensed internal code, and hopefully you will know a password at that point.

Can you not bring the system back up normally?

Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects

On Mar 16, 2023, at 2:23 PM, Jerry Draper <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

option 21 on the front panel only works if I already know a DST password.

How can we recover the system?

J

On 3/16/2023 11:55 AM, Jerry Draper wrote:
System is down in normal mode so we can't access the system normally.

Customer doesn't know any DST password.

Thus DST.

Need to get into DST to IPL the system in console mode to see what's going on.

Can't do a CHGDSTPWD.

Need to use DST option 21 on panel.

Jerry

On 3/16/2023 11:51 AM, Jim Oberholtzer wrote:
Sign on to IBM i as QSECOFR. Use CHGDSTPWD to set it to *DFT.

The log on as QSECOFR/QSECOFR and change the password. You can use SST
you don’t need DST.




On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 1:47 PM Jerry Draper<midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Customer lost DST QSECOFR password.

Following these instructions on an 8202 P7 system from Larry Bolhuis

**********************************
Select manual mode from the control panel (01 B M)
Select function 21 and press Enter
control panel display is now 21 00
Log on as QSECOFR QSECOFR
**********************************

Selected function 21 from the pull out control panel

Press enter and control panel is now 21 00

Press enter again

Using ACS I still get a prompt for DST userid/password when I click
console for selected system

Expecting to be able to log on to DST with QSECOFR QSECOFR

Hmm. What am I missing?

Thx,

Jerry

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