Re: How To Configure Console Address

Hi:

I have performed every function that I have ever done in Operations
(emphatically NOT a large subset of the possibilities!) at least once from
the 0/3 terminal, including IPL, Go Save 21, and PTF load. In fact, using
the 0/0 terminal was usually restricted to tape backup administration when
the physical tapes were involved (it sat on top of the 3570 tape library
which is on top of the AS/400).

Darrell

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Manager, Computer Operations
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midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 02/27/2007 10:51:11 AM:

Have you been able to do a RCLSTG or other dedicated system task from

this

one on switch 3?  Simply doing a DSPMSG QSYSOPR or some such thing

doesn't

count.
You may be able to spoof the RCLSTG by doing a TFRCTL to QCTL of that
session.  So here's the real test - try IPLing to DST (not SST) to the
terminal at address 3.

I've had numerous problems with twinax.  One of the redundancies you used

to be able to build in (at least on a S/36) was to have two separate
twinax workstation controllers  And then the one at address 0 on the

first

port out of the second controller could also be a system console in a
pinch.  As said, I did have numerous problems with twinax and had to
activate this once (when the whole first controller died).

But if you are simply having a terminal that up and pukes then it is much

easier to move a working terminal into that position, change the address,

and fire it up.

Rob Berendt