Mike, we are currently moving consoles to osa. I checked our HMC guide and did not see anything on console recovery. Could you provide some details or where I could find some information.
Thanks Matt -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Myers Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 7:53 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: HMC System Console usage (one more time) Kevin: Since switching to our new z10, we have only OSA attached consoles. We got rid of all the 3174s and green-screen consoles, which were very long in the tooth anyway. Operations really only uses the HMC to initiate an IPL, as the PCs in the operations area remain attached to specific OSA slots designating them as consoles and these addresses are also defined as NIP consoles. The z10 has been around less than a year so we haven't yet had to use the HMC as the console of last resort, although that day may yet come along. We have used it to recover OSA attached consoles in the last month when the PC group pushed some updates to the PCs in the operations area, forgetting that they were special (being used as consoles). Forcing a reboot caused them to lose their OSA connections. Fortunately, we had already set up a procedure for console recovery from the HMC that operations was able to follow. Mike Myers Pitt County Memorial Hospital On 03/29/2011 12:01 AM, W. Kevin Kelley wrote: > 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"? > > 2) How many of you have used it to recover OSA attached consoles? > > 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)? > > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
