Re: POWER6 now or later?

[Larry Bolhuis <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Pete and I have talked about this. The problem isn't that you can't 
start a 5250 session its HOW you start them. If you are working directly 
on the HMC and you start up a partition you get a check box that says 
'Crank up a console session?' that you may use. When you are attached to 
the HMC remotely then the box is grayed out and you need to open said 
session manually with your favorite 5250 emulator. Once opened it works 
perfect and you soon don't care how it got opened.

So all the function IS there it's just not as friendly as we both agree 
it should be.

Just so IBM doesn't get the idea that we should be FORCED through the 
GUI to get a console session we shouldn't. We like the ability to open a 
5250 session to the HMC, pick an i5, pick a partitioin, and get a 
console session but we wish the check box was allowed in addition to 
this through the GUI.

- Larry

Pete Massiello wrote:
> I was using the term consoles as yes, 5250 sessions.  What we would all call
> DSP01 for each partition.  Only on the actual HMC itself can you start them,
> but as Rob said in a previous note, you can connect to them and they will
> start.  
>
> I would hope in future releases of the HMC code, that you would have an
> option to start these consoles automatically at startup.
>
> Pete
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Urbanek, Marty
> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 1:21 PM
> To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: POWER6 now or later?
>
> Pete,
>
> Could you please expand on that a little because I am not familiar with
> the HMC?
>
> When you say "console" and "i5/OS LPAR Consoles" I am not exactly sure
> what you mean. Are we talking about a 5250 session that would typically
> be DSP01? If these cannot be started remotely that would seem to be a
> big deficiency. Could they be made to start themselves somehow when the
> HMC boots up, perhaps via standard Linux/UNIX facilities?
>
> Incidentally, our system will be a single i5/OS image (no LPARs).
>
> Thanks,
> -Marty
>
> ------------------------------
>
> date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:44:52 -0400
> from: "Pete Massiello" <pmassiello-ml@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> subject: RE: POWER6 now or later?
>
> The interface is exactly the same, but One big difference is that you
> can
> only start a console session from the local HMC, and you can't start
> your
> console (these are the i5/OS LPAR Consoles) sessions when you connect
> remotely.
>
> Pete
>
>