Thanks, Alan. I see a need for an RCF except for the fact that the most complete documentation is in the GROUP help screens and not in any document. After I get out of my meetings today, I'll submit one if I have the time. If not today, then tomorrow.
Regards, Richard Schuh > -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark > Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 10:05 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Question on SERVICE EXEC and PUT2PROD > > On Tuesday, 04/21/2009 at 05:30 EDT, "Schuh, Richard" > <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Are you saying that in a single user environment, it is > unnecessary > > to > even > > log the specified recovery machine on? If not, is it even > necessary > > to > specify > > a real id? > > That is correct. There is no recovery id. When each user > IPLs the single-user GCS, they are not joined into a group. > > > 1. For a single user system, you must specify an arbitrary recovery > machine > > userid simply for purposes of having it included in the > NSS. (Why can > it not > > be blanks in this instance?) > > Just specify it as "*" (like the DUMPVM= default). But it > doesn't really matter. In single-user mode, the recovery and > dump machine values are overridden at IPL time anyway. > > > 2. That userid does not have to exist because it will never > be logged > on. > > (Does anything bad happen if it is defined and someone logs > it on and > IPLs > > CMS? Probably not, but it most likely would be a bad idea > for it to > > be > allowed > > to IPL GCS.) > > See above. A single-user mode GCS is automatically > RESTRICT=NO, so anyone can IPL it. > > Alan Altmark > z/VM Development > IBM Endicott >
