z/OS operator console operations

The tasks of starting, running, and stopping an MVS™ system involve:
  1. Operating the system itself—that is, controlling the system software and most installation hardware (including processors, channel paths, and I/O devices)
  2. Operating the MCS (multiple-console support), HMCS and SMCS (SNA multiple-console support) consoles.

Console characteristics and operations describes the physical characteristics and techniques for operating the various consoles that MVS supports as operators' consoles. It describes the characteristics and operations that you cannot control, including those operations that are common to all operator's consoles.

Defining and changing console characteristics continues the console descriptions of Console characteristics and operations by describing the console characteristics that you can control. It describes the commands that operators and system programmers can use to tailor the consoles and console operations to the installation's requirements.