Adding and removing MCS consoles

Description: In V2R1, support enables you to add and remove MCS consoles dynamically when they are being used in distributed mode.
  • SET CON command processing is designed to process a CONSOLxx parmlib member and add new consoles, up to the system and sysplex limits for the maximum number of consoles.
  • The SETCON command is designed to let you specify a console to be removed.

This support helps you to improve availability by removing another reason for system- and sysplex-wide IPLs.

When change was introduced: z/OS® V2R1.

Reference information:
Parent topic: Consoles considerations