112Introduction to the New Mainframe: z/VSE Basics
4.1 How do we interact with z/VSE?
We have mentioned that z/VSE is ideal for processing batch jobs (workloads that
run in the background with little or no human interaction). However, z/VSE is just
as much an interactive operating system as it is a batch processing system. By
interactive we mean that end users (sometimes tens of thousands of them
concurrently in the case of z/VSE) using the system through direct interaction,
such as commands and menu style user interfaces.
z/VSE provides a number of facilities to allow users to interact directly with the
operating system. This chapter provi ...
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