Re: Ops Console problems with Win2K -- MIDRANGE-L

Thanks, Syd

I understand exactly what you say. But we don't have a
twinax card on the 400. We do have an ancient PC with a
twinax card, but I'd still need a port out of the 400,
right?

Win98 has been fairly stable, on a laptop with powersave
turned off. Maybe I'll go to an older machine that's I'm
replacing with this Win2K box and install 98SE on it and
see.

I'll check the archives, too. Why is this so hard? I
remember the earlier discussion.
> Hi Vern,
>
> I had a similar problem which ended up being the subject of much
> discussion about the OS/400 console.
>
> I my case I was unable to resolve the problem in the time I was prepared
> to give it. I resorted to (and still use) a 'Dumb' twinax terminal for a
> console - vastly superior to anything else IBM has come up with.
>
> The messages I received were much the same as the ones you outline
> below, but in my case I could get a connection and I  was able to use
> Ops Console. The problem I had was that it wasn't stable - It would
> crash in the middle of a SAVSYS, or a Cum PTF install, or some other
> important function. I would have considerable dificultly re-establishing
> the connection to the system, which is not a pleasant situation when the
> system is in restricted state. Sometimes it was necessary to force power
> off, do a normal IPL, then start the process all over again and hope it
> doesn't crash a second time. One can go round and round in circles here.
>
> The message I am trying to put over, though rather negative, is - even
> if you do get it working it might not be reliable. You might be better
> to consider alternatives.
>
> Syd Nicholson
>
> vhamberg@attbi.com wrote:
>
> >I'm having fits with Ops Console on a Win2K box. Same
> >one I'm having Domino plugin problems with. It has
> >worked fine consistently with a Win98 laptop.
> >
> >New Dell 500SC server, on which I put Win2K Pro instead
> >of Server. Ops Console setup manual only speaks of Pro.
> >Installed SP3 for Win2K.
> >
> >I'm setting up a direct cable LCS, no RCS's. I created
> >the "modem" according to the manual, then went carefully
> >through the steps for creating a new connection. Max
> >speed 115200, as specified. It's going to a new 270-2248
> >(1517) 1gig 6x17.54 DASD.
> >
> >I get a 'Communication error validating... Error code
> >10060' when using 115200 speed. When I shut it down to
> >19200, as suggested for authentication errors, I get 2
> >messages, 'RAS connection to FLASH failed. There was a
> >hardware failure in the modem', and 'Console connection
> >to FLASH failed. Do you want to try again?'
> >