It used to be that if the Master was unavailable, the first interrupt from a defined consol became the Master.(Meatball hoagie in tape shop taught us this).
In a message dated 10/23/13 14:36:28 Central Daylight Time, d10j...@us.ibm.com writes: If no valid NIP console has been found, we will use the system console (a.k.a. Opeating System Messages on the HMC) to IPL the system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN