Tom

Try attaching a tape drive at the address that was in error, and mount and 
ready a tape..

eric

At 12:20 PM 12/19/2005, you wrote:
>Hopefully this won't get to any point where I have to take drastic
>action....
>
>We have an old VSE machine (VSE/ESA 2.3.2), which somehow got hung
>this
>weekend.  My best guess is that it hung when one of our tape drives
>broke, but I can't be sure it was using them.
>
>I have the "forced logoff pending" stuff.
>Yep, tried:
>
>force guest
>force guest logoff
>force guest logoff immediate
>force guest immediate
>
>Tried logging on.
>There are no tape drives currently attached to the system, but someone
>may have detached them earlier.
>
>My plan was to wait an hour and see if it clears up.  Well, times up.
>
>There was a method, in the old days, that you modified some bits in
>some control block and you can free up the user.  Does anyone have
>that
>procedure, updated for z/VM 5.1 (RSU 501)?
>
>Any other advice would also be welcome.
>
>Tom Duerbusch
>THD Consulting

Eric Schadow
Mainframe Technical Support
www.davisvision.com 



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