Consoles

New session

Click this button to pop up the New Session dialog allowing you to manually create a new console session.

Load CCS

Click this button to pop up the Load-CCS console selection window allowing you to load some or all sessions from the CCS servers defined on this MVCM server. All selection CCS sessions will be added to the current automation server in the disabled state

Start

Click this button to start the selected console sessions. Only those sessions that are both enabled and not currently running are started, others are not affected.

Stop

Click this button to stop the selected console sessions that are currently running.

Edit

Click this button to pop up the Edit-Multiple-Sessions window allowing you to change one or more settings for the selected sessions in one operation.

Delete

Click this button to delete all of the selected console sessions. A pop up will ask you to confirm your decision before the sessions will be deleted.

Select all

Click this button to select all of the listed console sessions for use with one of the control buttons that can operate on more than one session at a time.

Clear all

Click this button to clear the selection check from all of the listed console sessions.

Enable

Click this button to enable all of the selected console sessions.

Disable

Click this button to disable all of the selected console sessions.

Show CCS description - show status detail

Clicking this button changes the right-most column displayed in the console list from Status Detail to CCS Description showing you any descriptive information you entered when defining console sessions in the CCS server configuration pages. Click a second time to return to the status detail.

CCS Sessions

The list of all sessions defined for the selected server with status information and controls for each session. A check box to the left of each session selects it for use with the Start, Stop, Edit, Delete, Enable, and Disable buttons above.

Column headings in blue may be clicked to change the sorting order of sessions.

Enabled

Displays an image indicating whether or not the session is enabled or disabled. Enabled sessions are started when the Automation server is started. Clicking on the enable/disable image will switch the session between being enabled and disabled.

Name

Displays the name of the session.

CCS Server

Informational display indicating the CCS server for this session.

CCS Session

Informational display showing the session name within the CCS server.

Status

Informational display indicating whether or not the session is started.

Start

Clicking the Start button will connect the Automation server to this session. This button is disabled if the server is not running, or if the session is already running, or if the session is disabled.

Stop

Clicking the Stop button will stop the session. This button is disabled if the server is not running, or if the session is stopped, or if the session is disabled.

Edit

Clicking the Edit button will pop up the Edit Session window with the console session configuration displayed for editing purposes.

Copy

Clicking the Copy button will pop up the Edit Session window with the settings from this session and allow you to provide a new name and make any other necessary adjustments and then save to create another session.

Delete

Clicking the Delete button will delete the session. A pop up will ask you to confirm your decision before the session will be deleted.

Status detail - CCS description

This column displays either more detailed status or any session descriptive text found in the CCS servers console definition.

• Console-configuration The template used to automatically name the loaded sessions. The tokens %CcsServer% and %CcsSession% represent the CCS server and session names respectively. It is strongly recommended that you either leave this field at the default setting or change just the separator character to a hypen ('-') if you prefer that to the underscore. The various parameters are necessary to define a console session to the Automation server. For a new session many of the fields are defined with default values appropriate for the typical z/OS or z/VM consoles.
• Connection-information This tab contains the following information:
• Screen-processing You can analyze and generate messages for z/OS and z/VM consoles. The screen processing algorithm is chosen based on the Console Type set on the Connection Info tab. z/OS screens are processed based on regular expressions that identify the first line of text in the message, the parts of the screen text that are added to the message as properties, and a WTORs. The z/VM console processing has additional functionality built in to manage the console states and allow unattended operation.
• Health-Check This tab enables you to perform a health check for the session. The following fields contain default settings appropriate for the console type.
• Viewer-Assignment This tab allows administrators to assign a session to multiple viewers. You have a list each viewer as a checkbox and can assign the current session to the selected viewers when the session is saved.
• Console-Automation The main Automation Server page allows you to view, modify or delete existing servers and add new ones.
• Edit-Multiple-Sessions This window allows you to make the same change or changes to more than one console at the same time. This can be a considerable convenience if for example you need to change the password the Automation server uses for consoles.
• Load-CCS The Load CCS console selection page lists the currently defined CCS console sessions and allows you to add some or all of them to the consoles displayed on the server Consoles page.