Planning console groups

The GROUP statement of CNGRPxx allows you to define a console group and its members. On the GROUP statement, you can specify

The name of the console group.
The names of the MCS consoles, SMCS consoles, HMCS consoles, or extended MCS consoles that serve as members in the console group.

You can specify the name of the console group with its console group members on

CONSOLE AUTOACT to define the group of consoles that determine the usage of the system console. (See Using AUTOACT with the system console.)
DEFAULT SYNCHDEST to define a group of consoles able to display synchronous messages. (See Display of synchronous messages.)

When you define group names in CNGRPxx, do not use the names of MCS, HMCS or SMCS consoles defined in CONSOLxx or EMCS console key names displayed on the DISPLAY CONSOLES,KEY command as a group name.