Do you have TSO/ISPF and SDSF? Or CA Sysview? Or any other tool to use for sysprogs / operations so you can just leave Roscoe as is with "read only" console access to those you chose to let use the command at all? Or you could just use CONSOLE under TSO, that isn't much worse than the Roscoe console command.
If you are looking for something a bit more friendly, I have used this rexx exec from a redbook: Extended MCS Console via ISPF doc: This is from Appendix G. of the following Red Book: OS/390 MVS Multisystem Consoles Implementing MVS Sysplex Operations. SG24-4626-00 download from the internet. either: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks OR ftp ftp.almaden.ibm.com user: anonymous password: your email address cd redbooks/SG244646 get emcs.code ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is my personal setup, I don't recall if these are the names used or recommended in the Redbook CLIST: CONS (invoking clist) REXX: CNDS ISPF COMMAND TABLE: CNDSCMDS PANELS: USRCN & USRCNS -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://search390.techtarget.com/ateExperts/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN