Re : OP's Console on V5R2

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Adam

I've had no problems at all. The only thing to remember is to set the 
switch before starting the console. If you could find uses for 3 of the 
laptops, it makes a great solution. I suppose the other issue is, you can 
run only one console at a time. No hot switching with this setup. We did 
need to get F-F gender changers, the switch has 4 male DB9 and 1 female. I 
just saw one that appears to have all female ports.

Vern

At 01:15 PM 9/25/2003 +1000, you wrote:
> Hi Vern,
>
> Sounds great, except we now have all the cables and laptops. Do you have
> any connectivity issues doing it this way? It does sound a lot neater than
> what we've done.
>
> Thanks
>
> Adam Driver
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> date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 01:00:05 -0500
> from: Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> subject: Re : OP's Console on V5R2
>
> We bought a 4-to-1 DB9 (serial) switchbox - 2 of the ports are connected
> each with an iSeries OpsConsole direct cable, another to a DSL modem, and
> another to our phone system. The one is to a Win 2K server. I could see
> something like this working for you, assuming you have 4 Ops Console cables
>
> - or maybe you could use the one you have between the laptop and switchbox,
>
> then normal serial cables (cheap enough) from the switchbox to the
> partitions. The only pins that would be active are those that correspond to
>
> active ones on the Ops Console cable - unless IBM checks for pinouts at the
>
> iSeries.
>
> Saves on connectors, for sure. The box was less than $30 US, as I recall.
>
> Regards
>
> Vern