Operations Console user interface

Operations Console allows the user more flexibility when interacting with Operations Console and with the graphical interface it provides. By using these features, you can customize the Operations Console window so that you can view and interact with the information most important to you.

Each time Operations Console starts, it searches for new systems that are available to be connected. If no systems are detected and there are no previously configured connections, the setup wizard also starts.

The Options menu item provides the ability to modify the following functions:

Show Warnings: This option can be used to prevent many of the common dialog windows from displaying. For example, the confirming a delete function dialog window is not displayed if this is not selected.
Prerequisite Warning: The dialog that is presented during the configuration wizard concerning the requirements can be turned off using this option.
Use Single Sign-on: This option provides the ability to share common signon data when connecting multiple configurations at the same time. This allows the use of a single signon dialog window instead of one for each connection.
Double-Click: This option has two items associated with it. The first is for expanding or collapsing the tree structure, the + (plus sign) control. Instead of a single click to expand or collapse, you can change the function to use a double-click. The second item requires the user to use another method for starting a connection instead of double-clicking on the configuration name.

Each configured connection has a + (plus sign) to the left of the icon. The + (plus sign) is a standard Windows® expand and collapse function. Each configured connection expands out into separate functions associated with that particular connection. If you right-click on a remote control panel while the configured connection is in expanded mode, a system reference code (SRC) history option becomes available. The SRC history option allows you to retrieve all or part of the recorded SRCs issued by the server. This function can be very useful when you are resolving problems in a variety of situations.

You can drag and drop your configured connections to display them the way you want. This allows you to group configurations together so a common function can be performed on multiple connections at the same time. The standard Windows tagging methods for selecting more than one connection applies. Connections most likely to share functions can be grouped at the top of the list, for example.

Selected data columns can be placed in the order you want them. Using the drag and drop method, you can arrange any column, except iSeries® Connection, in the position most useful to you. You can also select which columns to display. From the View menu, select the Choose Columns menu. Then, select the columns you want to display and click on the column title to include it or not include it.