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Assign Consoles

Your product needs a pool of consoles (either JES or extended MCS consoles) to issue system commands. As delivered, this product uses extended MCS consoles that are dynamically defined.

To use JES consoles instead of the default MCS consoles, define at least six consoles that other products are not using.

Follow these steps:

  1. Open the SYS1.PARMLIB(CONSOLxx) member.
  2. Add the following statement for each console you want to define: 
    CONSOLE DEVNUM(SUBSYSTEM)...

An IPL is required to activate the updated CONSOLxx member. To start using the JES consoles, also update the $RM CONSOLES Customizer parameter group.