User guide for CA-VTERM, a terminal expansion facility for VM, covering features, setup, logical terminals, session management, and messaging.
This guide explains how to use CA-VTERM, a terminal expansion facility for VM, to log on to multiple user IDs from one physical terminal. It covers features like convenience and efficiency, session setup, logical terminal management, and messaging. The guide also explains user and session profiles, HELP utilities, and session termination.
Each time you log on through CA-VTERM, you begin a new session. Your current session includes the period of time during which you access the CPU through CA-VTERM. The current session is over when you quit CA-VTERM.
Although a logical terminal will respond just as if it were a physical terminal, it is not something you can see or touch because it resides only in memory. A logical terminal enables you to log on to another user ID without logging off your current user ID; using CA-VTERM, you can log on to up to 16 user IDs from just one physical terminal.