Generated from C.65.00 /SYSADMIN/PUB/MYCICAT last modified on Sun Aug 29 15:08:37 2004
Changes the system console from its current device to another job-accepting terminal.
CONSOLE [LDEV]
LDEV THE LOGICAL DEVICE NUMBER OF THE NEW CONSOLE TERMINAL. IF OMITTED, THE CONSOLE COMMAND DISPLAYS THE CURRENT LOGICAL DEVICE NUMBER OF THE CONSOLE.
THE CONSOLE COMMAND HAS TWO PURPOSES: TO DISPLAY THE LOGICAL DEVICE NUMBER OF THE TERMINAL CURRENTLY BEING USED AS THE SYSTEM CONSOLE, AND TO MOVE THE CONSOLE TO ANOTHER LOGICAL DEVICE. LISTING THE LOCATION OF THE CONSOLE REQUIRES NO SPECIAL CAPABILITIES. MOVING THE CONSOLE REQUIRES OP OR SM CAPABILITY. THE CONSOLE CANNOT BE MOVED TO A REMOTE TERMINAL, THAT IS, ONE THAT IS CONNECTED TO YOUR SYSTEM VIA A DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS (DS) COMMUNICATIONS LINE. SIMILARLY, IT SHOULD NOT BE MOVED TO A TERMINAL USING A MULTIPOINT TERMINAL SOFTWARE (MTS) LINE, OR A PAD TERMINAL OVER A MODEM. WHEN YOU SWITCH THE LOCATION OF THE CONSOLE WITH THE CONSOLE COMMAND, A MESSAGE IS PRINTED ON THE FORMER CONSOLE AND ON THE LOGICAL DEVICE RECEIVING THE CONSOLE TO DISPLAY THE NEW LOGICAL DEVICE NUMBER OF THE SYSTEM CONSOLE. THE OLD CONSOLE IS NOW JUST ANOTHER SESSION DEVICE AND ALL THE CONSOLE CAPABILITIES ARE TRANSFERRED TO THE NEWLY DESIGNATED TERMINAL. WITHOUT PARAMETERS, THE CONSOLE COMMAND WILL REPORT THE CURRENT LOGICAL DEVICE NUMBER OF THE CONSOLE. NO CAPABILITIES ARE REQUIRED TO EXECUTE THE COMMAND THIS WAY. THIS COMMAND MAY BE ISSUED FROM A SESSION, JOB, PROGRAM, OR IN BREAK. PRESSING [BREAK] HAS NO EFFECT ON THIS COMMAND. IT MAY BE USED BY ANY USER TO DETERMINE THE LOCATION OF THE CONSOLE. TO CHANGE THE LOCATION OF THE CONSOLE, IT MUST BE ISSUED FROM THE CONSOLE*, OR THE USER MUST HAVE SM OR OP CAPABILITY. * IT MAY BE DISTRIBUTED TO USERS WITH THE ALLOW COMMAND.
BEFORE TRANSFERRING THE SYSTEM CONSOLE TO ANOTHER TERMINAL, BE SURE THAT YOU CAN TAKE THE CONSOLE BACK WHEN DESIRED (ALLOW USER.ACCOUNT;COMMANDS=CONSOLE). USERS ASSIGNED SYSTEM MANAGER (SM) CAPABILITY CAN RETRIEVE THE CONSOLE WITHOUT HAVING BEEN ALLOWED THE USE OF THE CONSOLE COMMAND. SINCE THE SYSTEM CONSOLE IS A SESSION DEVICE, A SESSION MUST BE LOGGED ON TO THE CONSOLE IN ORDER TO EXECUTE OPERATOR COMMANDS. CONTROL AND MAINTENANCE PROCESSOR (CMP) AND DIAGNOSTIC CONTROL UNIT (DCU) PROMPTS AND MESSAGES REMAIN WITH THE CONFIGURED TERMINAL, FOR EXAMPLE, CHANNEL 1, DEVICE 0. THIS FEATURE CANNOT BE MOVED TO ANOTHER TERMINAL.
TO DETERMINE THE CURRENT LOCATION OF THE SYSTEM CONSOLE, ENTER CONSOLE CONSOLE IS CURRENTLY ASSIGNED TO LDEV 20 TO TRANSFER THE CONSOLE TO THE TERMINAL IDENTIFIED BY MPE/iX AS LOGICAL DEVICE 31, ENTER CONSOLE 31 CONSOLE HAS BEEN SWITCHED FROM LDEV 20 TO LDEV 31
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