Re: How To Configure Console Address

[Evan Harris <spanner@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Darrell

I am pretty sure Rob's advice (and diagnosis) is on the money. Years 
ago I used to run System saves and RCLSTG from a terminal in my 
office that had an entry in QCTL and from which I used to do a TFRJOB 
into QCTL. I seem to remember that buried in the manuals it tells you 
that one device can be active in QCTL in a restricted state and 
that's why this worked. My terminal also was on port 0, but I don't 
remember whether that was significant or not.

What I DO remember is that when doing a full system reload after one 
of the <profanities removed> 9332 model 600's had died (4 in a year) 
then the console at 0,0 was required and could not be overridden or 
otherwise fooled. I was always comforted by the short cable run to 
the twinax controller box under the floor and the fact that I had a 
spare cable under the floor. My console was a memorex and sat on one 
of the old half height racks that had originally been attached to a system/38.

Regards
Evan Harris


At 07:30 a.m. 28/02/2007, you wrote:

> Hi, Rob:
>
> Thanks for the response. I gather from what you said, and my experience,
> that "IPLing to DST" is a rare event but if I need to do it that will
> probably *not* be the time to be futzing around with relocating consoles.
>
> I think I'll swap, putting the 0/0 console next to the AS/400 and the 0/3
> console on my desk. (There is a bit of a hike between the two.)
>
> Darrell
>
> Darrell A. Martin  -  630-754-2141
> Manager, Computer Operations
> dmartin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 02/27/2007 12:09:19 PM:
>
> > Again, that could be because the terminal id is entered as a workstation
> > entry to QCTL (DSPSBSD QCTL, option 4 or 5).  And that would work for
> > RCLSTG, etc.  But, I'm pretty sure, would not work for IPLing to DST.
> >
> > Rob Berendt