NetView® selects messages that you can specify through the MVS™ message processing facility (MPF) and uses its own message automation functions to help automate operations tasks. Using MPF, you can suppress large numbers of messages that operators do not need to see or select messages that NetView can use to automate MVS tasks. (For information about using MPF to process messages, see MPF and MVS operations planning.)
The NetView console, which is attached to NetView on an MVS system, allows operators to perform many tasks that they ordinarily perform on MCS or SMCS consoles. On the NetView console, you can display MVS messages, highlight and hold important messages as on an MCS or SMCS console, and enter MVS commands. The NetView console also allows operators to define NetView command lists. These command lists can respond to messages selected through MPF on MVS and perform a series of command operations that simplify operator console actions. You can also route messages to a NetView console. You can select certain messages to be directed to a specific console for operator action.
NetView consoles allow your operators to enter MVS commands to do work on behalf of MVS. Your operators can also use MCS or SMCS consoles to enter NetView commands. Thus, operators can invoke NetView command lists from MCS or SMCS consoles to accomplish NetView tasks.
See NetView Automation: Planning for more information about how to coordinate activities for your MCS or SMCS consoles, NetView, and MPF.