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-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of W. Kevin Kelley Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 12:02 AM To: [email protected] Subject: HMC System Console usage (one more time) I'm being asked one more time by TPTB to determine how the HMC System Console is actually being used by z/OS customers: 1) How many of you have used to it in an emergency as the "console of last resort"? Yeap, we have. 2) How many of you have used it to recover OSA attached consoles? Not yet, but we have to in the future. 3) How many of you have no locally-attached consoles and use the System Console to IPL and get you through NIP before transitioning to SMCS consoles (or some other console support requiring Comm Server to be up)? If management knew that could be done, they would use it as a cost savings measure and save some pennies on a console. W. Kevin Kelley -- IBM POK Lab -- z/OS Core Technical Development ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
