Synonyms for all commands and keywords

A summary of all the synonyms that you can use rather than the complete command names.

Table 1. Command Synonyms
Command name Synonyms Description
ALLOCATE ALLOC Allocate a journal.
BACKOUT BO Back out a sphere.
BLDVRP BVRP Set VSAM BLDVRP values.
DEFEXIT X, DX, EXIT, EXITS Define CICS® VR exits.
FCTCOMP FCTC, FCTCOMPLEMENT Pass FCT record-format information.
RECOVER RO, RECO, RECONLY, RECOV Forward recover a sphere.
RELATE REL Relate a path to the base cluster.
SEQCHKL SEQL, LDS Define sequence check for log data sets.
SEQCHKR SEQR, LREC Define sequence check for log records.

A summary of all the synonyms that you can use rather than the keyword names and values shown in the command descriptions.

Table 2. Keyword and Keyword Value Synonyms
Keyword name or value Synonyms
B1K B1024
B2K B2048
B4K B4096
B8K B8192
B12K B12288
B16K B16384
B20K B20480
B24K B24576
B28K B28672
B32K B32768

BACKUPNAME

BACKUP, BN

BACKUPTIME

BTIME, TIME

CICSID CID
CATALOG CAT, CTLG

DSNAME

NAME, DSN

ERROR ERR
ESDSDELETE ESDSDEL, EDEL
EXPORT EX
FCTNAME FCT
FILEID DD, DDNAME
FIXED FXD
GAPINSEQUENCE GAPINSEQ, GAP
IMPORT IM
JOURNALID JID
LOG JOURNAL, JNL
NEWPATH NEWDATASETNAME, NEWDSNAME, NEWDSN
NEWSPHERE NEWSPH, NEWDATASETNAME, NEWDSNAME, NEWDSN
OUTOFSEQUENCE OUTOFSEQ, OUT
PATH DATASETNAME, DSNAME, DSN

PREALLOC

ALLOC

PREAPPLY PREAPP, PRE

PRODUCT

PROD

RECFORM RECFM, RECORDFORMAT
RESETSEQUENCE RESETSEQ, RESET
SPHERE SPH, DATASETNAME, DSNAME, DSN
STARTTIME STARTDATETIME, STARTDATE, START
STOPTIME STOPDATETIME, STOPDATE, STOP
TERMID TERMINALID
TERMINATION TERM
TRANSID TRANSACTIONID
VARIABLE VAR
VERSION VER
VOLUME VOL