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How Command Routing Linkages are Defined

You must first define a linkage using the LINK command on the local system to provide a command routing path to the desired external systems. The linkage you create can limit both the external systems to which commands from this source are routed, and the command authority granted to the issuer on the external systems.

Cross-system commands are issued on the external systems and their responses are then sent back to the originating system.

The following illustration shows how commands are sent from a command source to a target console and how the response is returned to the command source: