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Adam

I've had no problems at all. The only thing to remember is to set the switch before starting the console. If you could find uses for 3 of the laptops, it makes a great solution. I suppose the other issue is, you can run only one console at a time. No hot switching with this setup. We did need to get F-F gender changers, the switch has 4 male DB9 and 1 female. I just saw one that appears to have all female ports.

Vern

At 01:15 PM 9/25/2003 +1000, you wrote:
Hi Vern,

Sounds great, except we now have all the cables and laptops. Do you have
any connectivity issues doing it this way? It does sound a lot neater than
what we've done.

Thanks

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date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 01:00:05 -0500
from: Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re : OP's Console on V5R2

We bought a 4-to-1 DB9 (serial) switchbox - 2 of the ports are connected
each with an iSeries OpsConsole direct cable, another to a DSL modem, and
another to our phone system. The one is to a Win 2K server. I could see
something like this working for you, assuming you have 4 Ops Console cables

- or maybe you could use the one you have between the laptop and switchbox,

then normal serial cables (cheap enough) from the switchbox to the
partitions. The only pins that would be active are those that correspond to

active ones on the Ops Console cable - unless IBM checks for pinouts at the

iSeries.

Saves on connectors, for sure. The box was less than $30 US, as I recall.

Regards

Vern



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