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Dedicated Linkages

A dedicated linkage lets a command source issue commands to a target console that CA MIC selects from the console pool. However, once CA MIC selects a target console, it is removed from the console pool so that it cannot be reassigned to another command source. If many dedicated linkages are defined on external systems, then the local target console pool could be depleted.

The advantages of a dedicated linkage are primarily as follows:

• You do not need to define the particular console to be assigned to each command source.
• Because a target console cannot be assigned to more than one command source, a command response or WTOR message is never misrouted.

Example: Dedicated linkage

LINK CONSOLE=TAPECON1 SYSID=ALL POOL=DEDICATE

Note: You cannot use dedicated linkages with console masking on the link.