On 24 March 2017 at 16:38, Anne & Lynn Wheeler <l...@garlic.com> wrote:
> FE had failure diagnoses requirement for bootstrap scope'able process.
> 3081 were inside TCM and no longer scope'able. Process was then a
> scope'able service processor ... that could be diagnosed/repaired and
> then the service processor had large number of probes into TCMs and the
> service processor could be used to diagnose the TCMs. The 3081 service
> processor was UC microprocessor and everything had to be developed and
> implemented from scratch.
>
> For the 3090, they originally planned on using a 4331 with a highly
> modified version of vm370/cms release 6 as the service process ... with
> all service screens done in CMS IOS3270. This was upgraded to a pair of
> redundant 4361s. The 3092 ("service processor", i.e. pair of 4361s) has
> requirement for two FBA3370s (even for MVS customers that never
> supported FBA). ... 3090 announced 12Feb1985 (including requirement for
> two FBA3370s for 3092 service processor)How were either of the 4331 or 4361 scope'able? Surely both were at about the same level of integration as the TCMs in the 30x0... Or had the scope'able requirement quietly disappeared by that point in favour of redundancy, leaving the other advantages of the service processor? Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
