Find the spooled console: CP collects everything, from the first message on, that is, even from before the spool is actually open. It should reveal every LOGON/LOGOFF of OPERATOR etc.
2008/7/18 Scott Rohling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > :-) I enjoyed the apt metaphors, Alan... > > Thanks to Kris, Thomas, and Alan for their suggestions.. I'll work with > the customer to try and determine what the real scenario might have been, as > there is some confusion there. I was also give a training session on this > system and doing some unnatural things before we reIPLed, so I could have > caused this myself somehow .. ? > > I assume that no matter who was SYSOPER when the system reIPLed that > OPERATOR should have been SYSOPER when it came back up? From what we've > found so far, it almost seems like it wasn't... > > Thanks - Scott > > > On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 8:32 AM, Alan Altmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> On Friday, 07/18/2008 at 10:00 EDT, Kris Buelens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >> > When the operator logs off for some reason, the first user logging on >> > with CLASS A becomes "system operator". Including a CP SET SYSOPER >> > OPERATOR in the PROFILE EXEC of OPERATOR is handy indeed: it makes >> > that an XAUTOLOG OPERATOR is sufficient to to re-assign the "system >> > operator" task to OPERATOR. >> >> When the current sysoper logs off, CP goes into "hunt mode" and will check >> to see if any of the ALTERNATE_OPERATORS are logged on. If you are in the >> list, you are given the privilege of being the system operator. If no >> alternate is available, only then will CP lie low in the grass, waiting >> for an unsuspecting or weak sysprog to wander by, separated from the herd. >> You can hear the screams as the sysprog discovers >> (a) TERM MODE CP is in effect and commands aren't working right >> (b) there's an odd timestamp on every message >> (c) realizes what's happened >> (d) finally remembers "TERM MODE VM" >> (e) the system is having I/O errors she didn't know about (HCPERPxxxx) and >> that no one reported >> (f) her plans to go home in 5 minutes are busted >> (g) remembers whose dumb idea it was to put his or her own userid in the >> ALTERNATE_OPERATORS list >> >> At his point, CP, bloodlust sated, settles down to watch over his harem of >> virtual machines, secure in the knowledge The Operator will maintain order >> in the universe. (Sorry - it's "VM Week" on the Discovery Channel.) >> >> Alan Altmark >> z/VM Development >> IBM Endicott >> > > -- Kris Buelens, IBM Belgium, VM customer support
