The TERMINAL command controls the dimensions of your display screen.

Most installations provide a default TERMINAL command through the logon procedure (PROC) in the LOGON command. The default TERMINAL command is set up for your terminal screen size.

The options specified with a TERMINAL command remain in effect until the end of the session or until you issue another TERMINAL command.

If you terminate a TSO/E session and begin a new session by entering the LOGON command, (instead of a LOGOFF command followed by a LOGON command) the terminal characteristics defined in the earlier session are used during the subsequent session.

If a line disconnection interrupts your session, and you log on again using the LOGON command with the RECONNECT option, the terminal characteristics defined earlier in the session are not saved. You must redefine your terminal characteristics because all records for defined data are lost as a result of a line disconnection.

The TERMINAL command is not allowed as a TSO/E command in the background. For a description of foreground and background execution, see Executing Foreground Commands from a Background Job.

In the following examples, you will see only one operand entered with each example of the TERMINAL command. You may enter any number of non-conflicting operands on a TERMINAL command.