Accessing the zOS master console on a flex-es machine

[dhblake001]

If this is too far off the subject, please forgive me. If there's someplace else better to ask, also please suggest it. That said ...

A friend has a flex-es system (I know that's not hercules-390). He's given me a telnet login and an ssh login. I also have x-windows (via cygwin). I'm able to access the native operating system ... unix, and do things there by using both telnet and ssh from my home PC.

I'm also able to get to the system via TN3270, although I don't have a TSO login, which is another whole story. If I did, I'd have a way to get to the console. Anyway.

I want to access the zOS main console, and I understand it runs (appears) in a x-window on the machine.

Can anybody explain to me, if it's possible, how to access the console from my PC here? Either off list to my private e-mail, or on the list if you think others might be interested.

[Tim Pinkawa]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 11:16 PM, dhblake001 <dhblake001@...> wrote:
> Can anybody explain to me, if it's possible, how to access the console from my PC here? Either off list to my private e-mail, or on the list if you think others might be interested.

Never used FLEX-ES, but I'll take a stab. Assuming the Flex host
machine is running a Unix-like operating system, you could install a
VNC server or NX[1] on the *nix side. Ideally you would tunnel the VNC
traffic (NX apparently does this by default) over an SSH connection to
the Flex host, since VNC does not offer encryption and has a weak
password scheme. If you've never used either, I would say VNC is
probably easier to setup since it can be deployed and run without root
access. Once it's setup, the Flex host's desktop will appear on your
local machine and you should be able to interact with the master
console.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NX_technology