z/OS Command view

The z/OS® Command view provides a command line interface to the z/OS console. You can type an z/OS command in the text field and the response is shown in the view.

You can enter any command that you are authorized to use. Press Enter to submit the command. The following screen capture shows the response from the command d a,l.

A screen capture of a the z/OS Command view showing the response to a d a,l command.

The z/OS Command view uses the TSO/E CONSOLE command to process the request. The name of the console used for processing the commands is based on the z/OS Console setting in the CICS® Deployment Assistant Connection. This console name should be unique to your CICS DA userid and should not be the same as that used by any other console interface.

The user ID associated with the FTP Connection referenced from the CICS Deployment Assistant connection must have the necessary authority to issue any commands used by this view. The facilities that are available depends on the security manager in use, and the attributes of the user ID being used. For example, for RACF® users, the user will usually obtain the console attributes from the user ID's OPERPARM RACF segment. This will control, amongst other things, the console authority.

Depending on your console authority you might not be able to reply to certain WTOR messages. For details of the OPERPARM segment see the RACF Command Language Reference, or equivalent for your security manager.

When a z/OS command is submitted for processing, the z/OS Command view waits for the timeout period specified on the 'z/OS Command timeout' setting on the CICS DA Connection. If a response to the command is received within this timeout period then the reply will be returned to the z/OS Command view.

Whether a response is received depends on the command issued and the subsystem processing the command. For example a successful MVS™ START command will not normally cause a command response. The subsystem providing the response to the command must support responding based on the console name, and honor z/OS Command and Response Tokens (CARTs), which are used by CICS DA to retrieve the response. The output that is returned in the z/OS Command view depends on whether the output is produced within the CICS DA Connection