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Logon rejected
Then, in Figure 8-15, if the user gets tired of waiting (maybe the user knows that IMS1 will be
down for an extended period of time) and logs on directly to IMS2, IMS2 will check the NodeA
entry and find that NodeA is owned by IMS1 and reject the logon.
Too bad;
however, IMS2 can steal the node if the logon exit (DFSLGNX0) says it is OK. A
clever user shop will write a logon exit to recognize some user data entered at logon as a
request to steal the node. For example, the user data might say, “
I really mean it!”. If this
happens, then the conversation is ...