> I recommend that you do not define any devices as NIP consoles > in your IODF. Then Operating System Messages will always be used as > the NIP console.
The problem is convincing the powers-that-be of that. I have the scars from attempting it. Here inertia hits - 'we have always used a "real console" for NIP, we want to keep it', and no amount of arguments helped me. And I wasn't even the one who couldn't see the actual error message since I wasn't around that night. All those refusing to rethink their definitions later were the ones that flailed around for hours (yes, literally hours) until hitting a solution *without* knowing what the real problem was. And even on a fast-rolling NIP console - an LPALST syntax error would have been readable before the wait state. Ask me how I know. Barbara ps: Thanks Jim for making me revisit your post about 'colourful language'! I got a good chuckle out of that. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
