On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:38:08 -0400 "Bott, Steven" <[email protected]> wrote:
:>We recently experienced an outage due to an operator command being :>executed on the wrong LPAR because the operator neglected to include the :>RO portion of the command. The command being executed was F :>BPXOINIT,SHUTDOWN=FORKINIT. Now Management would like all destructive :>commands to have a WTOR which the operator would be asked "Do you really :>want to execute this command" and provide the opportunity to reply "NO" :>to abort the command. IBM recommends using the MVS Commands :>Installation Exit and the .CMD in MPFLST. Has anyone tried using that :>exit in this fashion? Would you care to share your pain or pleasure? :>Has anyone found a better solution to this problem? Thanks for sharing :>your experience. Automation packages should be able to handle it. -- Binyamin Dissen <[email protected]> http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

