Just write over the boot record and then put it back later. The Dead Beef part is tough unless you decide to mess with the second boot record and program.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 1:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: How to easily render a system unIPLable/IPLable I am running some SMP/E jobs to apply maintenance to our "sandbox". It is currently "down". I have emailed everybody that it needs to say down while I do my maintenance. Yes, I generally trust them. However, since I have the "sandbox" OMVS files mounted in order to directly put the maintenance on them, I was wondering if there is a simple, easy to reverse, way to render a system unIPLable? I don't really want to AMASPZAP the IPL text or anything weird like that. I don't want to rename any libraries (such as SYS1.NUCLEUS) because that would "mess up" my DDDEFs. And, just to be weird, I really love the result to be a "hard wait" with a code of 0xDEADBEEF. That would amuse me greatly. -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer UICI Insurance Center Information Technology This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and its' content is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this transmission, or taking any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
