Martin - surely you have missed out the last step :

"Make it authorized. Switch to key zero. Verify the storage. Alter the storage. 
Switch back to user key. Exit......er...IPL"

:-) 


Rob Scott
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Rocket Software
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Email: rsc...@rs.com
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of 
Martin Kline
Sent: 24 February 2010 16:43
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: Need tool to zap core

>I have a need to zap core, but my client does not have OMEGAMON.  I 
>searched the CBT mods tape and came up empty.  What we're trying to do 
>is a SETPROG LPA,ADD, but of course, there's a vector table that needs 
>to be updated with the address of the new module.  This is not an SVC, 
>so my only recourse to install this without an IPL is to zap core.  Are 
>there any freeware tools out there for zapping core?

In a pinch I've written a short assembler language program to do that when I 
was dealing with common storage. Make it authorized. Switch to key zero. 
Verify the storage. Alter the storage. Switch back to user key. Exit.

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