A scenario that discusses the ability to dial-in to the console from a remote location.
Your company owns an iSeries™ server and you want to use a
PC to manage your server. You need a console connected to this iSeries server
that will allow you to manage the console from a remote location. Then you
can perform an IPL from home over the weekend or check to see if the job you
started has completed.
For this scenario, configure
a local console directly attached to the server with remote access allowed on
the PC attached to the server. 
Then configure a remote console
through dial-up on the remote PC.
Advantages:
- The administrator will not have to be near the server to perform console tasks.
- Control panel functions can be performed from a remote location provided they are set up on a local console PC.
- You can use this PC as the iSeries console, to perform control panel functions, or both.
- The remote console can gain access to the iSeries server with or without operator intervention depending on your configuration.
Disadvantages:
- Only one incoming connection is allowed at a time.
- You need a console cable and a remote control panel cable to support their corresponding functions.
- Only one directly attached configuration is allowed per PC.