Controlling consoles, commands, and message traffic

This topic describes the commands that you use to control consoles and message traffic. Your system programmer defines a console's function and capabilities by coding initialization statements that are processed when you start JES3.

Your system programmer can supply you with a summary of the types and purposes of each console in your complex.

Once you complete JES3 initialization, you can inquire about the characteristics of your consoles and change many of them, using the commands in the following topics. Some topics contain equivalent MVS™ commands that you can use to perform similar functions for an MCS console.