For NIP consoles, we use a coax attached PC running, I think, the old IRMA emulation software (or equivalent). This is attached to a Visara which emulates a 3174. It is on an Escon CHP. The PC (actually 3 of them) even has the old IBM 122 key converged keyboard. The one with the 24 PFK keys along the top in a double row. Talk about old style. I often wonder about this. But the argument is that even if the LAN dies, a production control person can go use this PC to log onto CA-7 and continue to run our z/OS scheduled jobs. At least until we need data from a LAN attached server. And don't do any ftp. We have reason to not really trust the LAN people.
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) < shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net> wrote: > In <20131023075515.07f678e2041c928bd4cca...@gmx.net>, on 10/23/2013 > at 07:55 AM, "nitz-...@gmx.net" <nitz-...@gmx.net> said: > > > 'we have always used a "real console" for NIP, we want to keep it', > > They consider a TN3270 session from a PC to be a real console? > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT > ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> > We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. > (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- This is clearly another case of too many mad scientists, and not enough hunchbacks. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
