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Hardware Management Console (HMC)

The Hardware Management Console (HMC) application is used by the current IBM processors on your workstation as their processor console.

The HMC provides GUI dialogs for hands-on use and an application programming interface (API) for programmatic use, to be used for performing system maintenance. The OPSHMC REXX program provides a wrapper around the HMC API so that CA OPS/MVS users can more easily automate their processors.

The workstation on which the HMC application resides is connected by an 802.5 token ring or an Ethernet LAN to the Support Element.