On 3/28/2011 9:01 PM, W. Kevin Kelley wrote: > 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) Never, but used for SADUMP. Never until recently... bringing up two new data centers for the first time and HMC console was used for initial IPLs while all the OSA-ICC definitions / cabling was being worked out. 2) Don't think we've ever needed to do that. 3) N/A. We use OSA-ICC and used 2074s prior to using ICC. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:[email protected] Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ *** Please note the new URL for Mark's MVS Utilities *** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
