AutoConsole is designed to address the limitations of native OS/400® features by helping installations to automate System i message management. AutoConsole provides the ability to monitor message queues on both single and networked System i processors.
AutoConsole provides:
- Improved control of message queues via automated message monitoring and filtering.
- Increased throughput via automated replies and actions to critical messages.
- Improved user service by replacing cryptic messages with simple to understand text.
- Improved operator control via the enhanced console display.
- Enhanced management information from the comprehensive auditing facilities.
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AutoConsole - Technical Features
Enhanced Console Displays and PC Interface
AutoConsole's enhanced console support and Windows-based PC interface transform the standard OS/400 message queue facilities. From a single display, the system operator can view all message queues simultaneously for any System i processor in your network, anywhere in the world. Messages can be displayed in many different sequences including job order, severity order, chronologically, etc. Messages can be colour coded so that critical messages can be identified even if the operator is away from their console for some reason.
Message Queue Monitoring
Once AutoConsole is installed you can choose to monitor all, or just some, of your non-program message queues. Sophisticated filtering techniques enable you to decide which messages should be displayed and which 'thrown away'. You can also decide how AutoConsole should action these messages, perhaps by automatically issuing a reply, routing it to other users or one of six other options. Perhaps a tape mount has not been actioned within a specific time and you want to alert somebody that it has been overlooked. AutoConsole will do this for you through its message escalation facility.
Message Translation
Perhaps you would like to make life easier for your less sophisticated users by generating messages which they can understand rather than issuing the coded speak of a system or application-generated message? AutoConsole's message translation capability allows you to define an alternative message text for display
Fault Audit Capabilities
All message activity is recorded by AutoConsole and provides a comprehensive audit trail for future reference. You can always identify how messages were actioned, when and by whom. This is a considerable improvement over OS/400 where, once a message has been removed, there is no evidence that it ever existed.