1) yes 2) No OSA consoles
3) No - use Visara controllers for locally attached remotely accessible consoles. Jerry Whitteridge Design Engineer Safeway Inc. 925 951 4184 If you feel in control you just aren't going fast enough. > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On > Behalf Of W. Kevin Kelley > Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 9:02 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > 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"? > > 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 lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN > INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html "Email Firewall" made the following annotations. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Warning: All e-mail sent to this address will be received by the corporate e-mail system, and is subject to archival and review by someone other than the recipient. This e-mail may contain proprietary information and is intended only for the use of the intended recipient(s). If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient(s), you are notified that you have received this message in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately. ============================================================================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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