On Thursday, 07/29/2010 at 08:11 EDT, "Frank M. Ramaekers" <framaek...@ailife.com> wrote: > Why is there an AUTOLOG2? My system came defined with one, but the 191(A) disk > is empty. (Back in my old VM/ESA days there was not AUTOLOG2 although there > was an AUTOLOG1.)
It is used by RACF (and maybe other ESMs - I don't know). AUTOLOG1 brings up RACF. RACF brings up AUTOLOG2. This pre-dates the ability to configure the autolog user ID in SYSTEM CONFIG. Using a more modern view, installing an ESM would cause you to change SYSTEM CONFIG to contain SYSTEM_USERIDS STARTUP RACFVM AUTOLOG and RACFVM would bring up AUTOLOG1. But there is no way to configure RACF to bring up AUTOLOG1, so that would have to be addressed. I've never gotten a complaint about the AUTOLOG1/2 issue, so I haven't worried about it. There is still an outstanding requirement that IBM provide some sort of data in the default user directory that will more easily allow you to identify IBM-generated user IDs and their purpose. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
