1 - Not necessarily for emergencies. Use it for SAD, which could be considered an emergency :)
2 - Not recently. We used it while setting up the OSA consoles originally. We've not had problems with OSA consoles recently. 3 - We use it when the locally attached console isn't quite so local, such as IPLing the sandbox from home. Alan -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of W. Kevin Kelley Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 23:02 To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: HMC System Console usage (one more time) 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 lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
