On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:02:28 -0500, McKown, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>After all, z/VM does. Is z/VM so much superior to z/OS <crooked grin>? >z/OS does support that terrible old HMC "system console" interface, >after all. Or is it all a plan by IBM to sell OSAs configured as >OSA-ICC? > John, We've looked at it, and it certainly has advantages over the current HMC "system console" support -- we'd be able to provide a console image that would be byte-for-byte identical in look and behavior to what we support through MCS and SMCS. One thing you overlooked is that the z/VM support supports CMS -- so a system programmer can use CMS to edit files through this interface. It wouldn't be a huge stretch to (also) support TSO (and ISPF of course) through the interface. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to edit that PARMLIB member that prevented you from bringing up Comm Server and your SMCS consoles when you don't have any local MCS consoles? Seems like a nice way to provide the "console of last resort" and the "system programmer access of last resort." As silly as this sounds I don't recall that we've gotten a formal requirement (say from SHARE) to support it. As always, if you ask us to do something like this, we don't do something else, so you've got to tell us whether its worth the effort. Its not particularly cheap to do, although its cheaper since we did the SMCS support. 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
