When the command prompt is displayed, the tool is ready to accept commands. Administration commands are generally of the following form:
verb [param]*
where verb is one of the administration verbs listed in Table 7. All valid commands consist of at least one (and only one) verb, which appears at the beginning of the command in either its standard or short form.
The parameters a verb may take depend on the verb. For example, the
END verb cannot take any parameters, but the DEFINE verb
may take any number of parameters from 1 to 20 or more. Details of the
verbs that take at least one parameter are discussed in later sections of this
chapter.
| Verb | Short form | Description |
|---|---|---|
| ALTER | ALT | Change at least one of the properties of a given administered object |
| DEFINE | DEF | Create and store an administered object, or create a new subcontext |
| DISPLAY | DIS | Display the properties of one or more stored administered objects, or the contents of the current context |
| DELETE | DEL | Remove one or more administered objects from the namespace, or remove an empty subcontext |
| CHANGE | CHG | Alter the current context, allowing the user to traverse the directory namespace anywhere below the initial context (pending security clearance) |
| COPY | CP | Make a copy of a stored administered object, storing it under an alternative name |
| MOVE | MV | Alter the name under which an administered object is stored |
| END |
| Close the administration tool |
Verb names are not case-sensitive.
Usually, to terminate commands, you press the carriage return key. However, you can override this by typing the "+" symbol directly before the carriage return. This enables you to enter multi-line commands, as shown in the following example:
DEFINE Q(BookingsInputQueue) +
QMGR(QM.POLARIS.TEST) +
QUEUE(BOOKINGS.INPUT.QUEUE) +
PORT(1415) +
CCSID(437)
Lines beginning with one of the characters *, #, or / are treated as comments, or lines that are ignored.