I found the disk map where everyones minidisks were mounted, so I started going through them one by one, since I happened upon the read password. And lo and behold, on minidisk 191, I found VMUSERS.DIRECT, and in there was the MAINT password!
Thanks **MUCH** to everyone that helped me track this down! David Logan Manager of Product Development, Pitney Bowes Business Insight http://centrus.com W: (720) 564-3056 C: (303) 818-8222 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Logan Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2008 13:55 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Anyone know much about z/VM? I have hit upon the read password to maint 2cc. So where can I find the user directory now? I'm having trouble finding it still...apologies for the ignorance, it's been a hundred years since I've poked around VM, so I am having to learn my way around again. David Logan Manager of Product Development, Pitney Bowes Business Insight http://centrus.com W: (720) 564-3056 C: (303) 818-8222 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2008 10:43 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Anyone know much about z/VM? >>> On 12/13/2008 at 11:31 AM, David Logan <[email protected]> wrote: -snip- > I am pretty sure it's a disk setup thing, but I'm not having much luck > finding what I need in the manuals. The manuals all assume that somebody > with the right setup has already done things right, and I am essentially > trying to get in from an account not directly set up for CMS. Do you have access to the MAINT account, or the privileges to look at the CP directory for the guest? That will be important in figuring out what you're seeing. > I am getting this: > > IPL CMS > DMSIND2015W Unable to access system disk. Filemode S (190) not accessed > DMSIND2015W Unable to access the Y-disk. Filemode Y (19E) not accessed > DMSDCT104S Error 3 reading file SYSTEM SEGID S2 > DMSINS327I The installation saved segment CMSINST could not be loaded > DMSINS313W SYSPROF EXEC not found; notify system administrator > DMSOPN002E File SCOMDIR NAMES * not found > DMSSEC1286E Error loading SYSTEM Communications Directory, fileid = SCOMDIR > NAMES *. > DMSSEC639E Error in NAMEFIND routine; return code was 28 > z/VM V5.3.0 2007-07-12 13:35 All this sounds like the guest was never intended to IPL CMS, so none of the typical links to the various system minidisks were put in it's directory entry. In your position, I would ask the z/VM systems programmer for a "CMS user" userid. Also, if you're going to try to learn more about z/VM, in addition to Ed Jaffe's pointer to the SHARE presentation, I would recommend subscribing to the IBM-VM mailing list. Lots of very experienced VMers there, and an increasing number of people new to z/VM are coming in and asking questions. You would fit right in. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
