Fw: Operations Console - 1 PC to 3 AS/400's - Possible? - Yes!

> IBM still has a rock solid lock on the concept of a hardwired console...
> much the same that Windows NT still requires a physical mouse, keyboard
and
> monitor...
>
> At this point it is unclear as to when the AS400 will leave the grip of
the
> twinax attached console. We have been asking for a LAN based console
> function for several years. Given the nature of the AS400's security
though
> it is not hard to imagine how they have resisted this wide open
capability.
>
> The LAN console approaches the legacy twinax console from the correct
> direction. It still has some of the quirks of the ill fated Client Access,
> PC console though. However something is better than nothing.. For now you
> must burn a complete Ethernet adapter, as in dedicated adapter to the LAN
> based console, which must be on a specific part of the system back plane.
>
> We have burned an Ethernet adapter already for this purpose. Our next step
> is to assign the card a port and IP address in one of our segments. Then
the
> fun starts.


Jerome Draper, Trilobyte Software Systems, since 1976
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