Re: direct-cable-attached Operations Console

["Gonzalo Aguilera" <gaguilera@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

    Thanks for your answer James, a direct cable console is a 5250 emulation
connected through a serial port to an iSeries. It is needed for clean
installations of the operating system or when tcp fails...

    Gonzalo.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Rich" <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Linux 5250 Development Project" <linux5250@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 8:56 PM
Subject: Re: [LINUX5250] direct-cable-attached Operations Console


> On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Gonzalo Aguilera wrote:
>
> > Is there a way to use 5250 emulation as a direct-cable-attached
> > Operations Console?
>
> I'm not sure what a direct cable attached operations console is, but
> tn5250 requires a TCP/IP connection.  If a direct cable attached
> operations console uses TCP/IP then you have a good chance of success.
>
> James Rich
>
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