RE: how to have AS/400 console at home

["Andy Nolen-Parkhouse" <aparkhouse@xxxxxxxxx>]

> You have mentioned the "magic words" that nobody else on this thread
has -
> -
> "twinax card".  As long as you're on twinax, you can end the system to
a
> restricted state from just about anywhere by issuing a "TFRJOB QCTL"
> command
> prior to doing so.  The as-yet unmentioned caveat is that, if you're
> running
> a TCP/IP connection (as most of us are these days), you cannot issue
the
> ENDTCP command without the twinax connection to achieve a "true"
> restricted
> state.  Please correct me if I'm wrong, as I would love to be...

Yes Dean, you're wrong (as you would love to be).  Transferring a job to
QCTL does not allow you to become the console.  You could certainly run
interactive jobs when your normal interactive subsystem has been ended,
but the console is still the console.

Regards,
Andy Nolen-Parkhouse