Console

The Console is a interactive 5250-type device of which there is exactly one for a given system or LPAR.

The console is the first workstation that the system activates. The system assumes that this console will always be available for use. You can access the dedicated service tools (DST) display only from this console.

Console Types

Twinax

A 5250 device, or equipment which emulates one. Must be wired to the first twinax controller IOP on port 0 (zero) and setup with logical address 0 (zero).

Operations Console

• aka OpsConsole
• A PC running the Operations Console component of iSeries Access for Windows.
  • One connection type, termed direct cable attachment requires a special cable, of limited length, which connects from the PC's 9-pin serial port to a communications port on the AS/400.

Thin Console

LAN Console

HMC, or Hardware Managed Console

See also

• ASMI