Re: Need Console 101 badly

[Larry Bolhuis <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Has anyone determined that V5R4M5 SLIC will load on a 270? Has anyone 
tried? Recently 'Not Supported' in the release column for SLIC meant 'no 
code to run on that processor' so this might never work.  Of course as 
soon as I download a copy of V5R4M5 Slic for Frankie I will be trying 
this unless someone tells me it flat out doesn't work.

 - Larry

rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Joe,
>
> (Rob is back from vacation)
>
> I - When you upgrade you may wish to upgrade to V5R4M5 and not V5R4M0.
> I-A Pro is that you can have that hot raid spare drive that you were 
> previously talking about.  Also, if you migrate that 270 to newer hardware 
> you will need to be at 545 to do the "standard" unload/reload.
> I-B Con is that 545 is not going to be officially supported on a 270 even 
> though thousands of them will need to do this (including us) if they wish 
> to do the standard unload/reload.
>
> We used to be an Op's Console shop when we had 8xx boxes.  Don't worry 
> about the ENDTCPSVR stuff.  Just keep the faith.  I don't know how IBM 
> left enough stuff running that you could do an ENDSBS *ALL *IMMED and 
> still use that box but, by golly, they did.  Think Joe, it is the flipping 
> console, I am sure IBM thought of it.
>
> The advantage of Op's Console over the new thin console is remote access. 
> You could always PC Anywhere into Op's Console.  Ain't going to happen 
> with thin console or a stupid 5250 proprietary console.  (Well, I suppose 
> you could use a PC with a twinax card using 5250 emulation and NOT iSeries 
> Access so you could PC Anywhere into that.  But that seems to slay the 
> myth of reliability associated with the 5250 console.  Coworker tells me 
> he's had to IPL the i5 lots more than his PC this last week - and he's 
> required to take his PC home every night.)
>
> Rob Berendt
>