RE: Questions about Ops Console

[Dwayne Lindner <Dwayne.Lindner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bag it as you may, the infocentre CD has everything you're looking for on it
- well, the V5R1 does anyway.  If not, check the Client Access web site -
they've got plenty of info about ops console and links to it - also a search
in the knowledgebase is handy too.

And you are correct about the Ops Console/LAN Console thing.


Dwayne Lindner
Senior Network Analyst
Wesfarmers Rural Information Technology
184 Railway Parade, Bassendean WA 6054
Ph: (08) 9273 5365    Mob: 0407 386 693
Email: dwayne.lindner@writ.wesfarmers.com.au

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> 
> A couple of questions from the uninformed, if you would indulge me.
> 
> First, the nature of the products: am I correct to say that 
> Ops Console is a
> PC program that acts as my system console but attaches via 
> serial port,
> while LAN Console is a similar product that runs via TCP/IP?
> 
> Second, the box itself: I get the idea that iSeries (or at 
> least my model
> 270) come configured either for Ops Console or a local 
> console.  My machine
> seems to have come configured for the PC, even though I 
> didn't ask for it (I
> guess it's the default).  However, I use a twinax attached 
> dumb tube as my
> console.  Because of that, my machine runs fine, but is 
> always displaying an
> A900 error code.  Is there a way to change this configuration 
> myself, and if
> not, I seem to remember a manual IPL procedure that makes the 
> A900 go away.
> Does anybody recall that?
> 
> Finally, where is the easiest place (yeah I know) to find 
> information about
> installing and running Ops Console?  As I said, my model 270 
> seems to want
> Ops Console, and I really should learn about it.  Will Ops 
> Console run on an
> NT machine?  Is the serial port standard on the 270, and just 
> for grins
> (because even if I find a manual, they never seem to be very 
> good about
> this) where physically on the box is the correct port?  That is,
> approximately what location on the back, and does it have a label?
> 
> Joe
> 
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