Most people are familiar with using SDSF from an ISPF screen to manage z/OS, and not from the operator console. Ive been running z/OS under my laptop using zPDT, and Ive had to brush up my operating skills because I could not get the system up to be able to use ISPF and SDSF!
If you have problems and cannot get ISPF started you will need to use the operator console.
Use the MVS control command see here.
Hints for using the z/OS console.
If you issue a command to z/OS (for example D A,L) you get a display like
- 09.23.55 STC00406 VTAMAP98I 011 system command(s) issued. - 09.23.55 STC00406 VTAMAP99I Execution completed. - 09.23.55 STC00406 IEF404I VTAM00 - ENDED - TIME=09.23.55 - 09.24.26 IEF404I IEESYSAS - ENDED - TIME=09.24.26 09.24.26 HWI006I BCPII ADDRESS SPACE HAS ENDED. - 09.25.32 STC00418 GFSC507I CLIENT LOG DATA SET, NFS.CLIENT.LOG1, IS - BEING USED. - 09.25.32 STC00418 GFSC284I NETWORK FILE SYSTEM CLIENT COULD NOT GET GSS - CREDENTIALS - FOR THE NFS CLIENT : GSS API krb5_get_default_realm() FAILED - WITH GSS MAJOR STATUS 96C73ADF GSS MINOR STATUS 00000000 - 09.25.32 STC00418 GFSC700I z/OS NETWORK FILE SYSTEM CLIENT (HDZ223N) - started. OA53881, GFSC4XLO, Sep 22 2017 14:49:23 . - 09.27.24 d a,l |
CNZ4105I 09.27.24 DISPLAY ACTIVITY FRAME LAST F E SYS=S0W1
JOBS M/S TS USERS SYSAS INITS ACTIVE/MAX VTAM OAS
00005 00016 00000 00033 00016 00000/00040 00015
LLA LLA LLA NSW S JES2 JES2 IEFPROC NSW S
VLF VLF VLF NSW S HZR HZR IEFPROC NSW S
VTAM VTAM VTAM NSW S DLF DLF DLF NSW S
RACF RACF RACF NSW S RRS RRS RRS NSW S
TSO TSO STEP1 OWT S SDSF SDSF SDSF NSW S
TCPIP TCPIP TCPIP NSW SO TN3270 TN3270 TN3270 NSW SO
HTTPD1 HTTPD1 *OMVSEX OWT SO CSF CSF CSF NSW S
HZSPROC HZSPROC HZSSTEP NSW SO HTTPD11 STEP1 WEBSRV OWT AO
PORTMAP PORTMAP PMAP OWT SO HTTPD17 STEP1 WEBSRV IN AO
SSHD3 STEP1 START1 OWT AO HTTPD18 STEP1 WEBSRV IN AO
HTTPD19 STEP1 WEBSRV OWT AO
IEE612I CN=L700 DEVNUM=0700 SYS=S0W1
IEE163I MODE= R
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To clear scrollable messages in the top box use the K command. Action messages will remain.
To clear (and remove) the lower box, use the K E,D command.
To remove the action messages from the top box use K E,1,1 This deletes the top message.
If you get too many action messages, you will not see the scrollable messages, and so you will need to clear some of the action messages.
You can use the “K S,REF” command to configure how the console is configured, and what messages automatically scroll off the screen.
To make the screen so every things rolls, and you do not have the static status window,
- k e,d to clear the static window
- k a,none to remove the static window
ColinPaice 