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Support Element (SE) or Hardware Management Console (HMC). It is
limited because it
works in a pseudo-typewriter manner. z/OS will attempt to use it only for critical messages.
Nevertheless, messages can flood it and recovery can be problematical.
With FLEX-ES, the indications of this situation are z/OS operator output messages appearing
on the window with the
flexes> prompt. You must press Enter (in this window) after each
z/OS operator message to restore the
flexes> prompt.
The first recovery step is to reconnect a 3270 session to the proper address. We assume this
is address 700 in this discussion and that it has the device name mstcon in the FLEX-ES
resource definitions. You can reconnect to this sess ...