Re: Applying configuration from IPL "Type A" to "Type B" on AS/400 9406-170

I'm still looking the technical name of that weird TCP over Serial stack,
but I can say that I remember the Operations Console "dialing" a
connections and the two computers of a network connection appearing next to
the clock when in use.
Here's a doc that more or less says the same but doesn't mention the name:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/running-operations-console-vista-or-windows-7-or-8


On Thu, 11 May 2023 at 20:15, Patrik Schindler <poc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello Roberto,

Am 11.05.2023 um 23:45 schrieb Roberto José Etcheverry Romero <
yggdrasil.raiker@xxxxxxxxx>:

If I recall correctly the Operations Console that used the serial port

was based on a weird TCP over Serial stack.

I don't think so, but I can't prove it. :-) From reading the document
hinted by Marc, I think this "weird" IP support is needed only when using
RAS facilities to dial into a remote PC for obtaining a console. My guess
is that purely local access might be less picky.

If those cables weren't so expensive, I'd obtain one, try and document
what still works, with modern hard- and software, probably USB-Serial and
running Windows in a virtual machine. Or probably try to run contemporary
CA versions with Wine under Linux.

If anyone has a 97H7557 cable spare to donate for this, I'm all ears. I
also have "luggage transport" opportunities from the US to Europe — I'm
living in Germany.

and even then the thing was extremely finicky, I remember several days

fighting the console and the 25,26, 65+21 functions to get back the console

I have heard similar reports.

but that was on Power5 hardware. I have never seen a non-twinax machine

before the Power5 generation.

You probably have not seen 9401-P0x machines then. :-)

They come in basically two flavors (different MFIOP boards, I think):
- Twinax and no LAN,
- LAN but no Twinax.

LAN being an optional IOA for either Token Ring or Ethernet.

Without Twinax, console support over the always included serial IOA was
the only way to actually have console on these machines.

:wq! PoC

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