We have done 1), we have no 2), we definitely do 3) - HMC (via the web) and SMCS are all we use (or have, for that matter).
As a side note: we tried OSA consoles, but (at least at the time) they didn't handle SSL as we wanted, so we dropped them. We run VTAM/NET as SUB=MSTR, so the requirement isn't onerous. On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 23:01:36 -0500, W. Kevin Kelley <[email protected]> wrote: >I'm being asked one more time by TPTB to determine how the HMC System >Console is actually being used by z/OS customers: > >1) How many of you have used to it in an emergency as the "console of last >resort"? > >2) How many of you have used it to recover OSA attached consoles? > >3) How many of you have no locally-attached consoles and use the System >Console to IPL and get you through NIP before transitioning to SMCS consoles >(or some other console support requiring Comm Server to be up)? > >W. Kevin Kelley -- IBM POK Lab -- z/OS Core Technical Development > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO >Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
