Irrelevant in this case. Translation is a by-product, not the main thrust, of the command environment. In any event, the commands entered were all upper case. The problem is that either CMS does not recognize SFS administrative commands (and who knows what others) when entered from the Pipelines COMMAND filter, or Pipelines is screwed up. There is no separate command environment for these commands, so they must be CMS commands, and should be so treated, by both Pipelines and CMS.
Try the experiment of executing the DELETE USER command from within the "address command" environment. It will work. -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Feldman (WFF) Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 1:53 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: COMMAND vs. CMS This appears to be a SFS admin command. The Command vs CMS is usually in regards to 'address'ing an environment. Addressing Command will issue the command in CMS without translation. Ex. In vanilla CMS if you have a file such as JOEUSER Ofslogfl A In an exec you could issue: 'RENAME JOEUSER Ofslogfl A JOEUSER OFSLOGFL A' this defaults to CMS and will fail because the lower case chars will be translated to upper and the input file will not be found. If you code: Address COMMAND 'RENAME JOEUSER Ofslogfl A JOEUSER OFSLOGFL A' it will succeed because address command passes the exact phrase without trans. Hope that helps, Richard Feldman Senior IT Architect Kelly, Douglas / Westfair Foods Ltd. Ph:(403)291-6339 Fax:(403)291-6585 -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Nielsen Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 2:22 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: COMMAND vs. CMS The COMMAND stage bypasses the normal search order and won't find EXECs. = Since DELETE USER is not a CMS or CP command it fails. The COMMAND stage= ends when it gets a negative return code if it's secondary output stream = is not connected. Brian Nielsen On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:08:43 -0800, Schuh, Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot= e: >I have a file containing records that look like this: > > DELETE USER JOEUSER fpid (TYPE NOCONFIRM > >This file is read by a pipe and the commands passed to a stage for >execution. I have seen and heard the arguments for using COMMAND vs. CMS= >stages, so I passed the records to COMMAND (as in 'PIPE < fid | command >| cons'.) Nothing happens as a result. If I change the COMMAND stage to >CMS, the commands are acted upon. Funny thing, an appended command of >"ERASE fid" does get executed in either instance. There must be some >simple explanation for what is happening, but I must be even simpler. >What am I missing? > >Thanks, >Richard Schuh > > > >