Shimon, I have a customer with a new z890, who uses the ICC with PCOM since August last year. He is happy with the solution, no problems. Perhaps you should try pcom as an emulator.
Franz Josef ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shimon Lebowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 11:54 AM Subject: Re: [VMESA-L] OSA-ICC > Quoting "Huegel, Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I am getting a brand new z890 next week and I'll be installing z/VM 5.2. > > > > My question is, 'What do I need to take advantage of OSA-ICC for my > > consoles?'. > > > > Does anyone have an example of the OSA deffination they can share? > > What emulator do you use on the PC ? > > Is there anything else I need to know? Any gotcha's? > > > > Thanks > > Congratulations on the new 890. Unfortunately, in my > experience, the ICC is the weakest link in an otherwise good system. > > 1) As was mentioned by Eric, you need to define the OSA in your > IOCP as an OSC type CHPID and CNTLUNIT. I did not assign it to > a particular LPAR. > One thing I see Eric did not use was MODEL=X on the 3270 > IODEVICE statement. I was under the impression this was required > but I guess I was wrong. > Here are my defs: > > OSA0ICC CHPID PATH=B0,PCHID=140,TYPE=OSC, OSA AS ICC 3270 * > > SHARED ACCESS ALL LPARS > > * > > CNTLUNIT CUNUMBR=B000,PATH=(B0),UNIT=OSC > > * > > IODEVICE ADDRESS=(B000,24),CUNUMBR=B000,UNIT=3270,MODEL=X > > 2) The z890 here was ordered by management, and the actual > configuration was decided in a meeting between the IBM salesman > and the director of the computer center. The salesman apparently > explained to the director how great this OSA is, and it replaces > the old 3174 control units, etc etc. So we got one. > > Note, I wrote "we got ONE". It seems that IBM recommends having > 2 such beasts, and I think I know why, but the deal was made for one. > (The other port on the card was allocated to different use). > We have been having situations where one or more (or ALL) of our > ICC consoles go dead on us. Attempting to restart them fails, with no > response from the IP of the OSA server. We have had an OSA card > replaced, we have had microcode upgraded, we replaced CAT cable and > the switch ... nothing helps (last such occurrence was last Friday). > > These almost always happen when the HW system people are not > around, such as weekends. <grrr> > The only guaranteed-to-work solution to the problem has been > to use the HMC to toggle the channel offline and online again > and restart all the clients. > > I personally feel the situation to be intolerable, but my > efforts to get management to escalate the issue with IBM have > not been successful. The problem reports I have opened have been > taken care of by sending the IBM hardware tech to collect > diagnostics, but nothing he has done has helped. > > Ok, that was my gripe... > > 3) We use the Powerterm emulator from Ericom, mostly because > it is Israeli, has very complete support of Hebrew, and we already > use their product elsewhere. > > I will be happy to show you my definitions, but I wont be > in the office for several days. If you send me an email offlist, > reminding me, I will try to send them some time next week. > > Shimon > > > >
