Re: AS/400e 170 IPL failure -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: AS/400e 170 IPL failure
From: Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 17:38:34 -0400
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Honestly, I'm not sure.

They may only allow the D mode IPL to use 'hardware' stuff and totally
keep you out of OS stuff like resetting the OS qsecofr password.

I can see that being a security breach. I can IPL from virtual media and
never enter my machine room.

not that you're interested in this (because for one thing IBM would want a
shovel of money and would start squawking over OS licensing, etc and would
take a month or more) but I believe there's a back door that IBM personnel
can do to fix this but it pretty much involves everyone else leaving the
machine room.

Rob Berendt

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