Re: green screens are sometimes better

Charly Jones wrote:
<snip>
 
> Here is the green screen equivalent:
> 
> 1)  connect both ends of the twinax cable
> 2)  on the e(logo)Server iSeries 400 i4 set autoconfigure "on"
> 3)  set the 5250 terminal to address 0
> 4)  power on the terminal and the system
> 
> Did I forget anything?

  2.5) Assure a FUNCTIONING keyboard is connected.  (Actually had this
just yesterday! DOH!)

  The problem is is that it's too simple and cheap.  IBM cannot sell
extra IOAs, Possinbly requiring extra IOPs, possibly requiring extra
cabinets.  They also can't sell hours of supportline time getting the
thing working!

  And while LAN console appears to be a 'nice alternative' to the Ops
Console, it turns out that it's not available for EZ-Setup *NOR* to do a
scratch re-load of a system with no load source. It also requires one of
the 100Mb LAN cards so this causes even more grief wrt IOAs/IOPs/Buss
because of the 100Mb cards higher IOP loads.  So you STILL gotta be able
to make the Ops Console work even if you're doing LAN console.  "Not
ready for prime time......"

 - Larry


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Larry Bolhuis           | Cogito ergo mercari iSeries 
Arbor Solutions, Inc.   |
(616) 451-2500          |               (I think, therefore I buy iSeries.)
(616) 451-2571 -fax     |
lbolhuis@arbsol.com     |        #3  1951-2001
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