Hi, Have you started the Console ID Tracking facility on your system? You probably should consider to do it.
The Tracking facility records instances of one-byte or migration console ID usage. These instances are known as violations. Programs that use these one-byte or migration IDs are known as violators. We have added to COMMNDxx COM='SETCON TRACKING=ON ENABLE CONSOLE ID TRACKING ' COM='SET CNIDTR=00 USE OUR CONSOLE ID TRACKING LIST ' At z/OS R6 and beyond routinely reviewing what is showing up in TRACKER seems like a good idea. Working with all the vendors and any local code to get it updated to clear these seems like a better idea. IBM supplies a z/OS consoles 1-byte tracker exclusion list with known issues which may be useful especially if you are still on R4 and have not updated vendor products recently. Parmlib member samples are available for the z/OS consoles 1-byte tracker exclusion list. http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/downloads/ Once I got to z/OS R6 I elected to stop using the IBM sample list and to build our own from scratch again so we had a better idea of vendor products that might need updates even if the vendors had not yet built the updates. I contact each vendor that shows up in the tracker and query them on support for the future console restructure and update our CNIDTR00 list and IBM if the vendor was not listed or the answer differed from what comments in IBM's sample list indicated. This has resulted in an education process for a few vendors and even caught products that thought they had completed all the work. IBM APAR II13752 & APAR OA10531 have more information. OA10531 which tracks the use of demand select to obtain an MCS console by ID or unit name has enough information that you probably should mention it to a vendor who is showing up with "Subsystem Console Service FFFFFFFF" in the tracker. There was a good session at the last SHARE conference where some of the recent past and future enhancements to CONSOLE were reviewed again. 2881 - Now Playing at a Screen Near You - z/OS Console Restructure The speaker will describe the technical highlights of Operator Messaging Architecture Enhancements, a separately orderable feature of z/OS 1.4, and included in the base for z/OS 1.5 and higher. The speaker will discuss the changes IBM has made in the Console Services component of z/OS as well as describe the actions customers can take now to be ready for this new feature. This presentation will also include a preview on the future Sysplex availability improvements planned for the Console Services component as well as what you can do to be prepared to exploit the improvements. http://shareew.prod.web.sba.com/client_files/callpapers/attach/SHARE_in_ Boston/2881.pdf http://shareew.prod.web.sba.com/proceedingmod/abstract.cfm?abstract_id=1 1230&conference_id=12 It seems like feeding any updates for vendor products not already listed in the current IBM sample to the console team is a good idea for the MVS community and you too. Best Regards, Sam Knutson, GEICO Performance and Availability Management mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (office) 301.986.3574 "Think big, act bold, start simple, grow fast..." ][ ==================== This email/fax message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution of this email/fax is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy all paper and electronic copies of the original message. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
