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Setting up PFKs for consoles z/OS MVS Planning: Operations SA23-1390-00 |
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CONSOLxx and PFKTABxx let you define the PFKs for all your MCS, HMCS or SMCS consoles on a system. For each console, you activate a PFK table — a table that your installation has defined — by specifying the PFK table name on the CONSOLE statement. The PFK table resides, optionally with PFK tables for other consoles, in a PFKTABxx Parmlib member. Using entries in the PFK table, you can:
To create PFK table entries, use the following keywords in the
PFKTABxx member of Parmlib:
Conversational or nonconversational mode applies to commands defined to a PFK. In nonconversational mode, the commands associated with a key are entered immediately when the operator presses the key on the console. In conversational mode, pressing a PFK causes the command to appear in the entry area, but no enter action takes place. Operators can change, enter, or cancel the command according to their requirements. In conversational mode, the cursor normally appears
under the third non-blank character when the command is in the entry
area. If you want the cursor to appear in a different location, when
you define the command, type an underscore immediately to the right
of the character under which the cursor is to appear. The system deletes
the space occupied by the underscore in the actual command. For example,
if you add the following entry to a PFK table:
pressing PFK 5 causes the following to appear in the entry area:
If you want an underscore to appear in the command, use two underscores. They are treated as one underscore, and are not used for cursor placement. For example, if the PFKTAB table contains:
when you press PFkey 17, the entry area will contain
Selector pens also use the definitions in PFK tables. When you have created your PFK tables in PFKTABxx, you can associate
them with the consoles in your configuration. Specify the following
keyword on the CONSOLE statement to associate a PFK table with the
console:
When you have defined the PFK tables for all your consoles, you
can activate the PFKTABxx member that contains the table definitions
at IPL. Use the following keyword on the INIT statement of CONSOLxx
to activate PFKTABxx:
If you do not specify PFKs for your consoles or if the system does
not find the PFK parameter, it issues the message:
IBM supplies defaults for PFKs 1 through 8 in IEESPFK in SAMPLIB. In a sysplex, PFK settings have system scope; they apply only to the consoles on the system where they are defined. |
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