On 5/23/19, 11:18 AM, "Linux on 390 Port on behalf of Will, Chris" <LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU on behalf of cw...@bcbsm.com> wrote: >Is there any advantage to setting up a terminal server
Yes. Think of it as analogous to attaching the console ports of your discrete servers without built-in management processors to a hardware terminal server so you can connect to them before networking is working. The original purpose of the terminal server code was to deal with the case where you bork the network and thus can't do anything without dealing with CMS's occasionally weird antics wrt terminal access. It lets you use the editors and environment you're familiar with in the Unix world to fix what you broke, without learning ed in TTY mode. IBM tried to introduce an HMC feature to provide a character-mode console, but it never worked the way most people wanted it to work, so this is the result. > and how is this accomplished? Cookbook at http://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/dw/linux390/docu/l4n0ht01.pdf ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
