Re: QSECOFR password

["Steve Landess" <sjl_abc@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Dave Snyder wrote:
> In thinking about disaster recovery, if everyone who knows our QSECOFR
> password is gone, and our location that we store a hard copy of the
> password is destroyed, and we restore our system at a disaster recovery
> site, is there a "back door" to resetting the QSECOFR password, or where
> would we stand at that point?
> I do not need specifics at this point, just wondering how deep of a
> hole would we be in for such a situation.

Dave -
In this situation, you would be able to recover the password, 
but it will require the assistance of an IBM SE and you'll have 
to pay for their minimum # of hours to perform this task.

I'd suggest that you need to keep a hard copy of the password 
and a set of backup tapes in more than one offsite location,
like a safe at the disaster recovery center, a remote office, 
or a secure site like a bank safe deposit box far from your data center, 
so that there is low or no likelihood that the disaster that destroyed 
your data center will also destroy this storage location.

BTW, remember the skits where Dave Letterman used to drop things 
from buildings?  John Brandt has a story about an AS/400 that was 
dropped from a building for a disaster recovery test and was recovered 
and running within two hours!  

Regards,
Steve