On 3/29/2011 00:01, 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)?
1) We have, more so with our sandbox or in D/R, but once in a blue moon in production. 2) We have, though I'm not certain how many times. 3) All of our images have only OSA-ICC attached consoles. We do not use SMCS nor any other solution with z/OS Comm Server requirements. I, too, wish z/OS would support the HMC's integrated 3270 interface as z/VM. Didn't the 4381 have an on-board coax card that could be used for attaching consoles? Sigh... life was so much simpler back then... ;) Art Gutowski Ford Motor Company ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
