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New enhancements for z/OS Operator Consoles plugin

By Anthony Giorgio posted Thu April 02, 2020 03:47 PM

z/OS Operator Consoles plugin is a new task in IBM z/OS Management Facility(z/OSMF) V2R3. It provides function to work with z/OS consoles. Customers can view system messages and enter system commands within the web-based z/OS management tool. The systems that customers can work with are defined with the Systems task of the z/OSMF Settings category. Customers can also see a graphic summary of message activity. With Knowledge Center for z/OS (KC4Z), z/OS Operator Consoles task provides a quickly documentation for a message by hovering the mouse pointer on a message that is displayed on the console view.

z/OS Operator Consoles task got positive feedback after launched. While, it also received some requirements. To respond customers’ requirements and enhance current user experience, an enhancement PTF for z/OS Operator Consoles task is published.

The enhancements of z/OS Operator Consoles task include:

1. User can get the console automatically cleanup oldest messages so that the console can be used for several hours without performance downgrade. The Console View keeps up to 10,000 real time messages that are retrieved with the z/OS Operator Consoles task after the console is started. When 10,000 messages have been retrieved, retrieving more real time messages causes the oldest 5,000 real time messages to be automatically dropped from the view to make room for upcoming messages. User can retrieve these cleaned messages from the log again.

2. User can see a new scrollable WTOR/HOLD view under the control bar on Console tab. This view displays all WTOR messages and HOLD messages that are issued after the console is started. HOLD messages are those with descriptor codes 1, 2, 3 and 11.

3. User can manually delete WTOR and HOLD messages from the WTOR/HOLD view by hovering the mouse pointer over the message content to display a Delete button. WTOR messages can also be automatically removed from this view if they have been replied to.