Re: How to start the browser on HMC V8?

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

NoCanDo boss. HMC is a closed appliance and using it to view content not 
provided by IBM is not allowed.

Personally I would be OK with accessing such things as a tape library as 
that makes perfect sense but where do you draw the line? Eventually you 
access something on the Internet that gets a virus into your HMC and 
compromises it. Since that would be bad, IBM disallows it.

As annoying as that is, I'm OK with it.

        - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 11/2/2015 12:30 PM, Buck Calabro wrote:

> How do I get a browser open on the HMC so that I can type in a URL to
> manage my tape drive?
>
> We have a CR8 HMC which is conveniently close to the tape drive.  The
> tape drive uses a web browser to move tapes around.  We've been running
> that browser on the HMC but had a long power failure and the rack got
> powered down.  The system is all running again, except for the browser.
>
> It looks like Firefox, but Ctrl-T doesn't have any effect.  When I open
> the restricted command line I can ls /usr/bin and see Firefox there, but
> the HMC disallows running a command with a slash in it.  PATH is a
> read-only variable, so I can't change that.  The Knowledge Center did
> not reveal the secret to me; searching only tells me how to configure
> the way to reach IN to the HMC, not the way to start a browser to reach
> OUT from it.