BPX.DEFAULT.USER is ignored in z/OS 2.1. This has widely been reported in IBM announcements The Migration Guide and this forum.
Check the archives. Your choices are: 1) create the OMVS segment for this user manually. 2) Set up the BPX.UNIQUE.USER/BPX.NEXT.USER environment as described in the manuals. HTH, <snip> On newly installed z/OS 2.1 system we experiencing OMVS segment not defined issue $HASP373 EZAZSSI STARTED ICH408I JOB(OSNMPD ) STEP(OSNMPD ) CL(PROCESS ) 807 OMVS SEGMENT NOT DEFINED etc... We already defined Steps for setting up default OMVS segments. </snip> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN