On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 6:56 AM, Alan Altmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Read the RACF Program Directory.  By default, RACFVM and RACMAINT can
> logon if RACF is down.  You must know their CP directory passwords.  (When
> RACF is up, those passwords have no effect.)

And practice on a little test system where you do no harm. You
probably have a few surprises when when you try to do things for real
(like finding that the user you autologged can't get to the disks
because RACF is not there, your utilities don't work without RACF,
etc).
You need to repeat such training now and then. Even with a careful
setup, if there's a lot of different fingers inside RACF and the
directory, things do break because people want to "clean up" things
they don't understand (like moving the backup userid from a "dead-end"
group to the "system servers" RACF group). And because they think the
changes don't make a difference, you don't get informed about it...

Rob

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