RE: No signon screen -- MIDRANGE-L

WRKHDWRSC *LWS search for CTL01.  If missing but you have a CTL02, you will
have to rename CTL02 Hardware Resource to CTL01 and make sure it is in the
correct slot.

If you find CTL01, see what slot it is in.  Check the back of the computer
for a card in that slot and make sure a brick is attached.  Attach your
system console terminal to port zero of that brick.  If that is where you
have been attached all along, you will have to vary off controller CTL02 and
rename it to CTL01.  Verify that the hardware resource is CTL01.

Hardware resource = CTL01
Controller description = CTL01
Device attached to Port Zero
Device addressed to Zero

Function 21 from the system panel will give you a signon DST console.

Check the workstation entries in QCTL.  You should have *CONS AT *SIGNON for
your system console and *All AT *ENTER.  Also check QINTER for its
workstation entries.

Do you have the 266C card still in the box?  It takes the 4 port brick which
uses a different connector and has a 9 port serial port as well.  If it has
been removed, you need to re-configuration to get a system console.

Chris Bipes
-----Original Message-----

No. No Ops Console. This system always had a Twinax console.

But, I am beginning to think that there WAS another twinax controller at 
one time.

Here is what I am seeing:

CTL01 is a 266C device type (not sure what that is exactly)
CTL02 is a 2722 device type.

The QCTLSBSD is QCTL.  QCTL is active.  There is a QCTL controller 
defined as a 266C device although it is varied off.  If you try to vary 
it on it tells you that the resource is already in use (presumably by 
CTL01 which uses the same resource).

When I delete the terminal device description on CTL02 (the only device 
configured on it), it autoconfigs as DSP020000 which tells me that it is 
on CTL02 (true) and has address 0 (true) on port 0 (true).  Even if I 
didn't want this as a console, shouldn't it still give me a signon screen?

There is only one connector at the back of the 720 that will connect to 
the "brick".

I just re-checked that the cable and terminal are OK by taking the 
terminal and cable off of our Model 800 and putting it on the 720.  No luck.

I suspect that it has something to do with the fact that the Twinax 
controller is CTL02 and probably something to do with the multiple 
QINTER subsystems but I can't quite pull it all together.

Pete



Ingvaldson, Scott wrote:

>I wouldn't try the install until I knew I could get a console device,
>you'll be in bad shape without it.  Since you can't force the console
>using DST that indicates to me that your device is not the console.  Was
>this system possibly originaly configured with an Ops Console?
>
>Regards,
> 
>Scott Ingvaldson
>iSeries System Administrator
>GuideOne Insurance Group
>
>-----Original Message-----
>date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 10:21:33 -0600
>from: Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx>
>subject: Re: No signon screen
>
>OK, lots of suggestions. Let me see if I can sort through them all.
>
>Mark:  I am not necessarily trying to get this guy to come up as a
>console.  I'd just like to make sure I get a signon screen so that I
>know everything is working OK BEFORE I scratch this thing.  I'd hate to
>scratch install and not have a console at that point so what I am trying
>to do is a reality check to make sure that when I really do need it, it
>will come up.
>
>Phil: When I do a PRTDEVADR on CTL02 I have a single 3476 device called
>DSP010000.
>
>Scott: No SRC codes. I tried changing the front panel to manual then set
>the option to 21 and pressed enter (think that is what you meant by
>forcing DST option 21).  No change.
>
>Rob:
>
>- If QCTLSBSD is set to QCTL, make sure that QINTER is running. 
>
>It is, and they have this thing configured with two interactive
>subsystems: QINTER001 and QINTER002.  AS I recall they did this because
>they had, like, 1000 devices on QINTER and somehow it reached a maximum
>so they split the subsystem in two.
>
>- Check the station address on the terminal Address is 0
>- Check the port number that you are plugged into Port is 0
>
>- Check out that the workstation is varied on.
>
>DSP010000 shows varied on.
>
>QCONSOLE shows that DSP010000 is the console name.  
>
>
>More questions arise in my mind though.  The DSP010000 value as console
>tells me that it was originally created on CTL01, correct?  CTL01 shows
>a type of 266C.  CTL02 shows a type of 2722 and that is what the twinax
>"brick" cable is connected to.  Perhaps they removed the original
>hardware for CTL01? There is an empty slot in the back of this thing and
>I don't see anything indicating a 266C on the back either.
>
>I hate to just "try" a scratch install and hope that I get a console.  I
>want to know all was well before I wipe it clean.....
>
>Thanks,
>
>Pete
>
>  
>
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