Using CA IDMS Masterkey › Command Concatenation

Command Concatenation

With CA IDMS Masterkey, you can combine two or more task commands within a single PF key substitution string or on the CA IDMS Masterkey command line. These commands are combined into a NOPROMPT CLIST and follow all rules of CA IDMS Masterkey CLIST processing.

The following are examples of "stacked" commands:

 I IDDM;OLM;ADSC

immediately executes each of the three commands as if they were in a CLIST.

 I IDDM;OLM;DCMT V PR @1 NCI

performs similarly, but substitutes a variable into the last command.

 I IDDM;CLIST module @1 B C;DCMT D TAS

follows all rules of substitution and CLIST processing available in CA IDMS Masterkey.

If you use the IMMEDIATE operand, place it only as the first command in the concatenation.

At the end of concatenated commands, CA IDMS Masterkey allows "ENTERNEXT TASK CODE:" to appear. This insures that error messages from commands in the concatenation will appear. To automatically invoke the CA IDMS Masterkey menu following execution, terminate the concatenation with ;KEYS as follows:

 I command1;command2;...;command;KEYS