CA also has a product call Automation Point. It does cost, not sure if it is beyond your budget or not.
It does take all console traffic and displays it on a single screen. It uses a server to host the base product and display the message traffic. It can provide remote access to the server so a second console can be used to view messages. It can also support additional downstream message management. I use it to consolidate traffic for 9 LPARs, and with all the message suppression, it is very easy to manage. Thanks Bill Bishop Consultant, Mainframe Engineer Mainframe and Scheduling | Infrastructure Technology Services Toyota Motor North America bill.bis...@toyota.com Office: (469) 292-5149 Cell: (502) 316-4386 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Wayne Bickerdike Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2017 12:19 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Consolidate Consoles Not too far out there... *realize this is a bit 'out there' but CA's Solve: Operations has something called OCS.* *– VigneshMainframe Infrastructure* We use CA-Solve OCS. Additionally our ops use PCOMM on old Win XP machines with multiple sessions/windows for each LPAR in our Sysplex. I expect that the CA-Solve solution costs too much and the OP wants a cheap solution. Our PCOMM/Console sessions are attached via ICC. I like Tom Brennans suggestion too. On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 2:19 AM, Jesse 1 Robinson <jesse1.robin...@sce.com> wrote: > We have used VCC for decades to present consoles from multiple > sysplexes a single screen. Software runs on Linux. Operator can select > which sysplex console to display. No host software required. > > . > . > J.O.Skip Robinson > Southern California Edison Company > Electric Dragon Team Paddler > SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager > 323-715-0595 Mobile > 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW > robin...@sce.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh > Sent: Monday, November 27, 2017 11:37 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: (External):Re: Consolidate Consoles > > I realize this is a bit 'out there' but CA's Solve: Operations has > something called OCS. > > – Vignesh > Mainframe Infrastructure > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Tony Thigpen > Sent: 28 November 2017 10:53 > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Consolidate Consoles > > That is a thought. > > Tony Thigpen > > Tom Brennan wrote on 11/27/2017 11:58 PM: > > A bit far-fetched, but: > > > > Create a HLLAPI application that reads a number of minimized ICC > > terminal emulators and piles all the console messages into a single > > display. Use a different text color for each - just like sysplexed > > consoles do. > > > > For command input, have the operator open that particular emulator > > window. That way you avoid HLLAPI code for command input and > > routing, and (more importantly) you force the user to focus their > > attention on one system. Once the command is entered, minimize the > > emulator window and the big HLLAPI application with all the messages shows > > again. > > > > Tony Thigpen wrote: > >> That is what I initially suggested. Then they said "but can we do > >> it with one session window open?" Thus my question. > >> > >> Tony Thigpen > >> > >> Porowski, Kenneth wrote on 11/27/2017 04:20 PM: > >> > >>> A single PC with multiple 3270 sessions to an ICC would work, just > >>> get a monitor(s) big enough to see/read all the sessions at the > >>> same time. > >>> > >>> -----Original Message----- > >>> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > >>> [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tony Thigpen > >>> Sent: Monday, November 27, 2017 2:58 PM > >>> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > >>> Subject: [IBM-MAIN] Consolidate Consoles > >>> > >>> I have been asked about "Console Consolidation" for our multiple > >>> zOS LPARs. Management wants to know what is available that will > >>> let us have one display with all the console traffic from 5 LPARs. > >>> They are envisioning a PC based solution, but we have the ability > >>> to run something on zVM. (These z/OS LPARs are not under z/VM, but > >>> we have z/VM on another CPU with NJE interconnection.) > >>> > >>> Thoughts? > >>> -- > >>> Tony Thigpen > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Wayne V. Bickerdike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
