John, make it a 2-people list then :) Since I've started in mainframes (2006), our operational procedures were to test HMC connectivity a couple hours prior to the IPLs and logon to OSM consoles, so I guess I got used to that. Now it's even better with the Java-less OSM interface, less risk of not being able to open it....
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Lucas Rosalen* Emails: rosalen.lu...@gmail.com / *lrosa...@pl.ibm.com <lrosa...@br.ibm.com>* LinkedIn: http://br.linkedin.com/in/lrosalen Phone: +48 (71) 792 809 198 2016-09-30 14:23 GMT+02:00 John McKown <john.archie.mck...@gmail.com>: > On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 3:03 AM, Brian Westerman < > brian_wester...@syzygyinc.com> wrote: > > > I'm actually kind of surprised at the number of sites that don't code the > > OSA-ICC consoles as NIP available. They were designed to function in > that > > manner, and you can then always have remote access (assuming you have a > > VPN). If you don't have a VPN set up for your mainframe, you are just > > asking for trouble. If you do have one, then not using it to support the > > box seems very silly indeed. > > > > We don't have a real VPN here. We used to. But we now use MS Terminal > Services Gateway. Basically that means your Windows (Linux & OSX cannot be > used) home machine will do a "mstsc" (remote terminal) connection to your > work desktop via the Terminal Services Gateway machine. This isolates your > home machine from the work LAN entirely. The bad part is that if your work > PC is down (say due to a transient power hit), you can't get logged in to > the system at all. Somebody needs to go into the office and power up your > machine for you. And the office is abandoned starting at 16:59:59.9999 > every work day. There is normally nobody here at night or on the weekends. > > > > > > > Setting up a separate PC (unless your box doesn't support the ICC > > consoles) is really not necessary. > > > > Actually, I'm likely in the small minority (perhaps of 1) who really likes > having _no_ NIPCONs at all. I actually _prefer_ to IPL via the "System > Messages" interface on the HMC. For a console session, I just use SMCS. I > wanted to use an OSA-ICC. And I even have an "extra" OSA handy. But the LAN > people just didn't want to be bothered to hook it into _their_ LAN. They > were running short of ports on the switches. And this place is, uh, > "frugal". I.e. they won't buy anything new until something critical is near > failing (or actually has failed). They just want _out_ of the "I.T. > business" entirely. I would guess that in another 2-3 years, the I.T. > department will be the CIO and maybe an assistant to who manage the > interaction with the outsourcer. I'm not too sure about local "desktop > support". That may remain in house. Or maybe there are companies which do > that too. > > > > Brian > > > > -- > Heisenberg may have been here. > > Unicode: http://xkcd.com/1726/ > > Maranatha! <>< > John McKown > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
