Looking at the ACCOUNT record/entry gives a bit of a clue since it says IBMCE. I tend to agree with one of the other posters that it was setup for sending EREP records to a PC. I remember setting up a user for this purpose a long time ago. I don't remember what the userid was. Someone else made a comment about the RDR seems to be ready to receive seems to be ready to accept input sometimes referred to as a hot RDR. It seems EREP could be set up to send data to the userid and then it got sent to a PC. I don't remember if the PC woke up every so often, connected to SERVICE in this case, got the data and then logged off. The PC then processed the records based on some criteria and I think could even page the CE if something was critical. I guess it was the precursor to the HMC function.
Steve ________________________________ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 2:51 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: newbie question - SERVICE machine >My vote's for IBM Service Director. I remember setting that up last century for our CE. would Service Director be set up to log itself on to a 'terminal' ? prg Phillip Gramly Systems Programmer Communications Data Group Champaign, IL
