I would recommend not using the HMC as an operator console. There is a VM userid called OPERATOR, which is usually logged on when VM IPL's. What are you wanting your operators to do? I would not use OPERATOR as a console, per say. I would set up a separate userid for the operators. I'd leave OPERATOR in a disconnect mode. I guess the question is, what do you want the operators to do on VM? Or what do you think they need to be doing? Steve
-----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 10:20 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: VM operator console? We are an MVS shop setting up a Linux under VM pilot and need to have some procedures in place for operations. We are trying to figure out how/where we want the operators to have console access. Right now only the sys. progs. have any access to VM and we use a telnet session from our desks to a VM user id or use the HMC. Is there a master console we can setup for operations like MVS? Should we setup a userid for the operators? Make them use the HMC? Is there another alternative I've not mentioned and don't know about? Thanks Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892-5628 301-594-7474
