Connecting to devices

When you start IMS, IMS automatically starts communications between IMS and devices such as spools, readers, printers, punches, tapes, and disks. After you start IMS, the telecommunication lines have a stopped status.

You can start the telecommunication lines, and devices if necessary, using the /START or /RSTART commands. Normally, you use the /START command after an IMS cold start and the /RSTART command after a warm start. The /RSTART command starts the devices so that they have the same mode they had when they were stopped at the previous system shutdown.

If you stop a device using the /STOP command, the device remains stopped after an IMS warm start or emergency restart.