Mark This would seem to indicate a requirement.
I would expect that there is a point within z/OS associated with analysing command input which "knows" all the characters so that a command can be routed appropriately. Thus it should be possible to have a command which displays all the characters in use at any one time with some sort of hint as to where the command with each character is routed. I'm not at all really knowledgeable in this area having only come across it in system programmer terms in connection with NetView so there may be some obvious flaw in this argument. And I think I may have worked out or vaguely remembered what the flaw might be. If each command is routed through different components having an interest in commands, it is only each component which knows its own character - in general. Perhaps the best that can be asked for is a command which displays some identification for each of these components - which, for all I know, may exist already. Whether or not such a command exists probably the only solution is to impose a discipline within your shop to keep a home-grown member of PARMLIB where all such characters are noted manually for the benefit of other system programmers. In the days I managed a number of test/education systems, I needed to do this sort of thing quite a lot just as an aide-memoire to myself. Chris Mason > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "McKown, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main > To: <IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU> > Sent: Tuesday, 20 February, 2007 10:00 PM > Subject: Re: z/OS System Cmd Characters > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark H. Young > > > Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 2:54 PM > > > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > > > Subject: z/OS System Cmd Characters > > > > > > > > > OK.....I seem to be having another brain-cramp, or else just > > > an Alzheimers > > > moment. So tell me, is there a repository on the system > > > somewhere, like > > > parmlib (not there) where all the different command characters are > > > defined.....what for to communicate with tasks > > > (subsystems)????? Or is > > > that just defined per each individual software product? I forget?! > > > You can find all of 'em via the CMD 'D OPDATA'. > > > > > > THANX, > > > Mark Young > > > > There is not a central repository. Each product does it in its own way. > > For example, JES2 defines it in the JES2PARM member, CA-OPS/MVS II > > defines it in a startup REXX program which sets a variable, the RACF > > subsystem does it in the IEFSSNxx member which defines the subsystem. > > > > Note that not every product which has a "command characters" uses the > > z/OS API to register it. D OPDATA only gives those products which use > > the API. Some actually trap the console SSI and do their thing. > > > > -- > > John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
