CMD

The IMFEXEC CMD command performs a variety of functions depending on the parameters supplied.

It may be used to

  • issue a BBI control command
  • issue an MVS command
  • issue an IMS or DBCTL command

Two major command formats are available: commands that return a full response and those that do not (or do so in a limited fashion). In general, enclosing the command argument in quotation marks indicates that a response should be returned to the EXEC.

For commands with responses (commands enclosed in quotation marks), the default command type is MVS. You can override the default value by coding TYPE(xxx), where xxx is BBI, IMS or MVS.

The different versions of IMFEXEC CMD are

 

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