> But it does not appear that OS/390 wants to come completely up without a 3270 console (which can't be easily captured and responded to anyway). I have
>
recollections of Melinda having managed to do this with her
MVS guests at Princeton. After many google, VMESA-L, and VMSHARE searches
I was unable to
>
find
> anything specific (other than "she
did it"). Maybe it relied on LDEVs? Does anyone remember the
technique?
Melinda is on vacation -- must be tough being retired.
The code is on one of the older VM
Workshop tapes (I seem to remember the UKY one). It used RXLDEV to drive a
virtual device and a whole lot of magic to determine what had changed in the
virtual screen image she maintained from the LDEV, which was then fed to PROP
like a proper operating system. It then responded using
VINPUT.
IBM occasionally wonders why VSE
survives. It's because VSE doesn't do half-ass stuff like dropping linemode
console support and actually tries to get along nicely with
VM.
