RE: P5 technology question.

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

there is a HMC coming for some iSeries/eServer models shortly...



On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Chuck Lewis wrote:

> Wow... this follows the opposite path of iSeries Ops Console:
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> "... a number of the more complex HMC functions can currently only be
> accessed through the WebSM interface, because they would be very complicated
> to use in command line form."
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> "Command line functionality will be enhanced over time."
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> :-)
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> Chuck
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> pSeries is not a rumor.  It's had the HMC for awhile.  How it physically
> attaches...
> http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/pseries/lpar/faq_3.html
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> Rob,
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> The rumor mill has not divulged that info yet....   :-)
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> It sure will nice to deal with the facts rather than all these rumors!
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> Regards,
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> Mike Shaw
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> Depends on what you define as 'built-in'.  Is the HMC for pSeries lan
> attached or does it use about the same cable as direct Op's Console?  But
> if you consider twinax to be 'built-in' it probably doesn't matter.  And
> can something that can run several machines, either independent boxes, or
> lpar's, be considered 'built-in'?
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> >                My question is, what's the scuttlebutt?
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> Well, technically, the scuttlebutt is a barrel (or "butt") with a hole (or
> "scuttle") cut into it, used to store drinking water on a sailing ship.
> Effectively a pre-20th-century version of the drinking fountain.
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> Seriously, I wouldn't mind one bit, seeing a built-in console added to the
> next generation of AS/400s, as long as it eliminates the need for all
> those silly CA/Windoze-based things like OpsConsole, OpsNav, &c. And if
> it's Linux-based, it's certainly an improvement over something
> Windoze-based. Although I'd still prefer for IBM to stop making such a
> show of abandoning Twinax.
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