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How You Define Additional Subsystem-Allocatable Consoles

If you choose the direct allocation method or if you have GCMINIT EXTCON= NONE, then you may need to define additional subsystem-allocatable consoles to z/OS for use by CA MIC and possibly other products.

To add subsystem-allocatable consoles, add the following statement to SYS1.PARMLIB(CONSOLxx):

CONSOLE DEVNUM(SUBSYSTEM) AUTHORITY(ALL)

Each statement creates one subsystem-allocatable console during the next IPL.