> I'd like to know if some of you knows a way to access from my > first level the 3270 console from a second level system. > We are running TPF test systems under our z/VM and I'd like > to have a view of the 3270 TPF main console.
Wouldn't we all. All-3270-mode consoles are one of IBM's less attractive "improvements" for guests. > We are expecting to change the 3215 console to a 3270 one. > When it is done, I don't have any access to the console . > Any idea ? Here's one way: 1) Gen the guest to have the console at a fixed address NOT 009 or 01F (I use 11F). 2) Define a 3270 device at the fixed address using a SPECIAL 11F 3270 card in the directory entry. 3) Obtain a copy of RXLDEV (a REXX function package that allows you to manipulate a device) 4) write an exec that creates a LDEV, DIALs to the special address and starts receiving console output. You then log the output like you used to. You can then use VINPUT to send commands back. Ugly, isn't it? It'd be really nice if someone with more influence convinced IBM that losing line-mode console support is a Really Bad Idea, but c'est la vie. (It's too bad that Princeton's VM system is finally dead. Melinda Varian wrote a wonderful set of tools for dealing with this. I don't know whether she saved any of that stuff -- I'll drop her a note and see if she's got it socked away somewhere.)
