Using EMCS Consoles with the NetView Program

EMCS consoles enable an MVS™ application program to interact with the MVS system as if the application program were an operator at a terminal. Using extended multiple console support consoles, NetView® automation can interact with the MVS system as if the NetView operator were an MVS operator.

Using extended multiple console support consoles enables NetView automation to interact with the MVS system without some of the restrictions imposed in other versions of the MVS system. For example, extended multiple console support consoles do not need to be defined in the CONSOLxx member of the PARMLIB data set.

The NetView program processes unsolicited MVS messages using the subsystem interface and processes solicited command responses using extended multiple console support consoles. This allows you to extract unsolicited messages earlier in the MVS process, while allowing operators the flexibility of EMCS.

For information about extended multiple console support consoles, refer to the MVS library. For more information about attributes for extended multiple console support consoles that NetView uses, refer to the IBM Z® NetView Security Reference.