RE: V5R1 Upgrade

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Andy Nolen-Parkhouse
>
> I have found that a machine configured for Operations Console will use a
> console at Port 0, Address 0 of a twinax controller if the Ops Console is
> not present.  This is documented in the Hardware Service Functions
> manual.  The system will assign up to two alternative consoles.

Thanks, Andy, that's what I thought.


> On my own machine I would probably change the environment to designate
> twinax as the primary console, but the use of alternative consoles is
> supported by the hardware.

Personally, that would be my choice, too, but I haven't been able to figure
it how to do it.   I asked the CE the last time he came out (when I threw a
drive), and he had thought that it would reconfigure itself after the next
IPL.  It didn't.

Joe