Getting information about logon fields

To find out more information about a field on the logon panel, type ? in the field and press the Enter key.

Exercise
Type `?` in the PASSWORD field and press the Enter key. Notice that the ? doesn't display when you type it. A paragraph appears with a description of a password. When you finish reading the paragraph, press the Enter key to return to the logon panel.

Note:

From now on, instead of pressing the Enter key after typing specific information, you can enter specific information. Thus the previous paragraph would begin:
To find out more information about a field on the logon panel, enter ? in the field.
In some cases you need to type information in several fields before pressing the Enter key. In those cases, we say to type specific information and when you are finished, press the Enter key.

When you are finished typing information in the necessary fields on the logon panel, press the Enter key.

What you see next depends upon how your installation modified the logon process. Some installations display one or more groups of messages at the top of the screen followed by three asterisks ***. Three asterisks in line mode TSO/E mean that you must press the Enter key to see a new screen of information.

 FIRST SHIFT SUNDAY ALL MVS SYSTEMS UP UNATTENDED EXCEPT BAQ,90B AND
BIQ,90D.   NO OTHER SYSTEMS AVAILABLE.

 ACCESS TO TSO SERVICES CAN BE GAINED VIA TSO2 OR TSO3 LOGON COMMAND.

 BULLETIN #40:  NEW ONLINE HARDWARE ALTERATION/INSTALLATION REQUEST
                PROCEDURES

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If you press the Enter key while the preceding panel is displayed, you see the word READY, which indicates that TSO/E is ready for a command.