Thinking about this a little more, I think what would be nice to have is
something along the lines of the OSA-ICC, which presents locally
attached 3270 device to the O/S, but is reachable via TCP/IP.
We could call it the OSA-ASC and it would present a locally attached
VT220 to either Linux running native in an LPAR or to Linux running as a
guest of z/VM, also reachable via TCP/IP.
No need to have access to the HMC and it's Integrated ASCII console.
DJ
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On 03.01.2021 2:00 PM, Mark Post wrote:
On 3/1/21 3:49 PM, Dave Jones wrote:
Have you considered using the IBM Terminal Server for
zLinux?
The Terminal Server is part of the s390-tools package and
permits normal access to other zLinux guests running
on the same z/VM system, even if they are not
connected to a working TCP/IP network. This permits
the use of common Linux tools like vi, Emacs, and
nano, to be used even in the event of a network
failure.
The caveat being that this only works after the kernel boots up to the
point where the hvc? console(s) are available. For any problems that
are
really early in the boot process, this won't suffice. Once you get past
that point, things do indeed look a lot more like "normal" to the
typical Linux system administrator.
Mark Post
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