Re: How To Configure Console Address

Hi, Pat (and Rob, and others):

Many thanks; this is what mailing lists do at their best. One of these 
days I am going to be the guy who knows an answer....

Is there any reason why the controller matters regarding the primary 
console? Currently, our 0/0 console (DSP01) is attached to controller 6, 
all by its lonesome. DSP02 is the 0/3 console, and it is attached to 
controller 1. I'm proceeding with the assumption that it doesn't matter, 
and that it made sense to our BP to do it that way when they installed. If 
anyone thinks otherwise, please say so.

Either way, we have been "skating by" for years, I think. Sometimes there 
wasn't even a device attached to 0/0. Not that we couldn't have stuck one 
on, but as I said the circumstances in which that would be important are 
not the ones in which I want to be puzzling out why my "console" won't 
fire up and where exactly to screw in the twinax connector.

I am making the swap today or tomorrow. The controller 6, 0/0 terminal 
will be located in the Computer Room, 8 feet from the AS/400. The 
controller 1, 0/3 terminal will be on my desk upstairs. (I am smarter than 
I may seem. I'm reconfiguring the hardware, and swapping the cables at the 
AS/400, not moving the terminals [grin].)

Darrell

Darrell A. Martin  -  630-754-2141
Manager, Computer Operations
dmartin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 02/27/2007 02:40:33 PM:

The "primary reason" for address 0 on port 0 is to do
the "manual IPL". It is fairly rare to do a "manual"
and many folks have never/rarely seen the machine in a
"restricted state".

If you need the services of CE, then he would generally
ask where the "console"(address 0,port 0) is so that he
can perform his set of programs and diagnostics.

It would be wise to have some device attached to 0/0.

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