Scenario: How to recover the console during a D-mode IPL with take over enabled

 

In this scenario you might be installing Licensed Internal Code as part of a system recovery action and the configured console was a local console on a network. However, the device did not become active and you have an A6005008 SRC code. The system is large and it takes a long time to get to this point and you do not want to start over.

The proper asynchronous communications adapter is available without further configuration changes, so you can use the console service functions (65+21) to change the console type. This automatically starts the communications adapter associated with the local console directly attached to the system. If you want to use the PC that you were using for the network-attached console, you simply disconnect the network configuration and create (or use a previously created configuration) a local console directly attached to the system configuration. After the console service functions (65+21) have successfully completed, you connect the directly attached configured connection. This device should become the console automatically and you will be at the step originally expected. If the network failure preceded the old console getting the language screen, the new console will present that screen. If the failure happened after you started an action, the new console will either be running that action or the action might be complete, in which case you will see the results of that action.

 

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Scenarios: Takeover and recovery