SNA NRJE User/Programmer Reference Manual (30292-90006)

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User Commands

CONSOLE

Obtains access to the host remote console of a workstation.

Syntax

CONSOLE

Description

This command obtains access to the host console of a workstation.

While you have access to the console, the console mode prompt that you

have conﬁgured for the workstation is displayed on the screen in place

of the usual NRJE prompt. (The console mode prompt is conﬁgured in

the NRJE Conﬁguration: Workstation Data screen.)

The following conditions must be met before you can issue the CONSOLE

command successfully:

• You must have NM capability or, if you do not have NM capability,

this command must have been “allowed” by your node manager.

• The communications line for your workstation must be open; the

workstation must be connected to the host job entry subsystem.

• The console facility must be free or available. Up to 28 users can

access the console simultaneously.

Note that since you cannot specify a

Wsid

in this command, you can

obtain access to the console of the default workstation only.

Once you can access the console, you can enter host console commands.

Each of these commands must begin with the conﬁgured host command

preﬁx character, conﬁgured on the NRJE Conﬁguration: Workstation

Data screen. Here is an example:

CONS>$DA

CONS> is the console mode prompt conﬁgured for the workstation, and

$DA is a JES2 host command. (The $ is the host command preﬁx

character.)

NOTE

NRJE does not check the host console command syntax. NRJE simply

sends all the text you entered, including the host console command

preﬁx, to your host as a console command.

If you are connected to a VSE/POWER host, the host console command

preﬁx is required before each command, but by host system

requirement, it is stripped off before transmission.