Customizing The Operations Console Window - IBM System i Manual

Note: An initial local console on a network configuration will configure both the console and remote
control panel. This is where you would turn off one of the functions if you did not want to use it.
The Device ID tab has been changed to allow a single button to reset the service tools device ID
password on the PC. The system's service tools device ID must be reset separately. The associated service
tools device ID for the configuration cannot be changed from this page. To use a different service tools
device ID, you must delete this configuration and create a new configuration using the new device ID.
The Access Password tab is where you can change the access password. The access password is used, in
part, to authenticate the device making the connection.
While in Properties, you can use the ? help for more information. Click on ?, the ? is now attached to
your cursor. Move the ? to the field you want more information on and click again. A context sensitive
help dialog window will appear containing information regarding just that field.
Related reference
"Preparation for your network environment" on page 11
To prepare for your network environment, you need to identify and comply with the minimum
network configuration required to set up an Operations Console local console on a network (LAN)
configuration.

Customizing the Operations Console window

Operations Console provides more flexibility when you interact with it through its graphical user
interface (GUI). You can customize the Operations Console window to view and interact with information
that is most important to you.
On the initial startup of Operations Console you may notice some small changes. The first change is that
there is a new drop-down menu item available, Options. The changes made in V5R3 also are listed here
to assist the new user with some of the capabilities of the Operations Console window.
v Show Warnings This option can be used to prevent many of the common dialog windows from
showing. For example, the confirming a delete function dialog window will not be displayed if this is
not selected.
v Prerequisite Warning The dialog presented during the configuration wizard concerning the
requirements can be turned off using this option.
v Use Single Sign-on This option provides the ability to share common signon data when connecting
multiple configurations at the same time. This allows the use of a single signon dialog window instead
of one for each connection.
v Double-Click This option has two items associated with it. The first is for expanding or collapsing the
tree structure, the + (plus sign) control. Instead of a single click to expand or collapse you can change
the function to use a double-click. The second item requires the user to use another method for starting
a connection instead of double-clicking on the configuration name.
The second button on the toolbar has changed functionality. If you are familiar with the older releases of
Operations Console, you might have used the second button to change a configuration. Now, the second
button takes you to the Properties page of the selected configuration. All changes to the configuration of
Operations Console are now made through the Properties page.
You may notice that the icon for configured connections is different. The use of a red or a green indicator
makes it easier for you to see which configurations are connected and which are not connected. Another
visible change made to Operations Console is that each configured connection has a + (plus sign) to the
left of the icon. The + is a standard Windows expand and collapse function. Each configured connection
expands out into separate functions associated with that connection. If, for example, the connections to
the first partition of an LPAR multi-partitioned system you might also see separate entries for a remote
control panel for each partition. This should added functionality should make it easier to administer your
connections.
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