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Overview

The Enhanced Console Facility(ECF) component of CA OPS/MVS enhances the capabilities of the z/OS existing console support by providing the following functions to operators using MCS consoles:

• An operator can run a single TSO command or a command procedure written in either OPS/REXX or the TSO CLIST language. This function is implemented using the CA OPS/MVS Server Facility, so you will see the term OSF associated with it. The command procedure can use the OPSCMD command supplied with CA OPS/MVS to issue z/OS, JES, and subsystem commands. If z/OS runs under VM, then VM commands can be issued. If the IMS Operation Facility (IOF) optional feature is installed, then IMS commands can also be issued.

  The interactive facilities of TSO do not have to be functioning for
  CA OPS/MVS to run TSO commands and CLISTs. CA OPS/MVS uses the TSO service routines, which are available to any address space, to execute commands issued from z/OS consoles through the ECF in one of the CA OPS/MVS Server address spaces.

• An operator can log on to the ECF, which creates a line-mode TSO session. The most common use of such a session is to run TSO EDIT to repair a member of SYS1.PROCLIB (for instance, the JES procedure) that is required to bring TSO up. Such a use of the ECF is called a system rescue.

  To use the ECF for system rescue, you must be able to run CA OPS/MVS with SUB=MSTR. SUB=MSTR allows CA OPS/MVS to be started independently of JES, which is necessary because JES might need rescuing.

Note: For more information, see the Administration Guide.