Command format
The basic format of a CICS BAC batch request utility input
command is as follows:
COMMAND NAME Parameter1(value1),Parameter2(value2),...,Parametern(valuen)
The rules for coding commands are
as follows:
- The command line is restricted to column positions 1 to 71 inclusive
- You indicate that a parameter string continues on the next line
by specifying any non-blank character in column
72.
- The command name must be the first non-blank word on the line,
and it must be followed by one or more spaces.
- You follow the command name with one or more parameter(value) strings (or none).
- You can abbreviate parameters and enumerated parameter values
(such as "OPEN" and "CLOSED") to their shortest
unique string. However, CICS BAC does not guarantee that an abbreviation
that is valid in this release will be valid in a future release. Therefore,
you should consider using abbreviations that are not the shortest
abbreviation possible for a parameter.
- If you specify more than one parameter string they must be separated
by a comma.
- Some parameters are optional, and others are required.
- Some parameters have a default value if you omit them,
and these defaults are underscored in the syntax.
- If you omit an optional parameter for which there is no default
value, that parameter is not used in the command.
- The default value for some parameters depends on the value of
others.
- You pass your commands to the CICS BAC batch request utility in
a data set with the DDNAME CBKIN.
- The order in which command parameters are shown in the
syntax diagrams in this chapter does not imply a required sequence.
You can order the parameters within a command in any sequence.
The above rules are explained in further detail, as appropriate,
in the description of each command. The commands provided by CICS BAC are: