How to issue commands

There are two ways of issuing any ISPF, TSO, view, or display command:

Multiple commands can be entered on the COMMAND line, provided they are separated by a command delimiter. You can use either the CICSPlex SM command delimiter, which is the semicolon (;), or the ISPF command delimiter, which is defined in your ISPF profile.
For example, to make window 3 the current window and to display a list of monitor-related menus in that window, you would enter:

   W3;MENU MONITOR

where ; is the command delimiter. The maximum number of commands you can issue at one time is determined by the length of the COMMAND field.

Multiple commands entered in the COMMAND field are processed sequentially. If you press a PF key while these commands are processing, the command currently being processed is completed, then the command assigned to the PF key is processed, then processing of the remaining commands in the COMMAND field resumes. Note, however, that processing does not resume if the command assigned to the PF key is the Quit command. Also, the Quit command does not interrupt processing of the current command.

Command descriptions and conventions

The descriptions of the CICSPlex SM commands in the remainder of this book use the following notation:

The following conventions also apply:

Note:
Display command parameters are specified in the same way as view command parameters, which are described in Specifying command parameters.
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