Re: SAVE 21 - console required? Or just controlling subsystem -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: SAVE 21 - console required? Or just controlling subsystem
From: "Buzz Fenner" <bfenner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 10:22:50 -0600
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On Wed, 6 Nov 2013 11:06:52, Evan Harris wrote:

However, those terminals didn't need TCP unlike most current access
mechanisms. A Console device is likely to connect over the short TCP stack
and continue operating during your save whereas a device just transferred
into QCTL is likely to fail as soon as TCP is ended.

I can testify from -experience- that this is what will happen. IBM told me
as much, also. Without twinax, you're forced to use LAN Console and the
short TCP stack.

Buzz

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