I know operations wants a 'console' so I'll look into using the OSA-ICC. Somehow I was under the impression it was not available to VM, not sure where I got that idea.
Jonathan, thanks for specifying non-sna/dft Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892-5628 301-594-7474 ________________________________ From: David Boyes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 11:18 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: VM operator console? Trouble with a 'real' console is the need to be a locally attached 3270 device. I understand that to mean a 3174 or similar device. We don't have any. All our MVS consoles use the ICC OSA interface. If you've got an ICC, then define one of the logical devices on it to the VM LPAR and have it be the console in SYSTEM CONFIG. It's a waste of a perfectly good terminal, mostly - with no CMS users, there's very little for an operator to do on VM - but it makes all things equal from an operator POV. If you have some way to set up a NJE link to z/OS, you can route things with PROP to z/OS and handle them in Netview there. Either RSCS or the NJE Bridge does a nice job of that.
