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Define Subsystem Consoles

If you are running a product that does not support extended consoles, then you may need to use subsystem consoles to issue commands to that product. If you have no subsystem consoles defined in your CONSOLnn members of the Logical Parmlib Concatenation, then you must add them.

How many subsystem consoles you allocate determines the maximum number of concurrent z/OS commands that CA OPS/MVS can issue on behalf of its users.

To define subsystem consoles

1. Tailor the following sample console definition in the member CONSOL00 of the SYS1.OPS.CCLXCNTL data set:

   CONSOLE DEVNUM(SUBSYSTEM),AUTH(ALL),NAME(OPSSSC01)
   

2. Perform an IPL.

   Your subsystem console is defined.

Important! Automation that is dependent on specific subsystem console IDs may fail in a sysplex environment because the IDs are dynamically assigned by z/OS and they may change from IPL to IPL.