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How You Issue Cross-system Commands from Other CA Software Products

If you are using the CA Remote Console or CA OPS/MVS products, then you can enable these products to issue cross-system commands. To do this, issue these LINK commands:

LINK PRODUCT=RCS  SYSID=ALL AUTHORITY=SOURCE
LINK PRODUCT=OPSS SYSID=ALL AUTHORITY=SOURCE

In these commands, RCS and OPSS are the subsystem names used to identify CA Remote Console and CA OPS/MVS, respectively, to the operating system.

Note for CA Remote Console Users: If you want to issue cross-system commands from CA Remote Console sessions, then ensure that the CA MIC DEFSYS and CA Remote Console DEFSYS statements are identical. Otherwise, common system identification between the two products is not possible.

Note for CA OPS/MVS Users: For more information, see CA OPS/MVS Considerations in this chapter.

Examples:

To reply WAIT to outstanding WTOR reply ID 3 on SYSB, issue a command in one of these ways:

• @SYSB 3,WAIT
• @BB 3,WAIT
• The BB value represents the system alias as defined in the DEFSYS statement.
• @02 3,WAIT

The 02 value in the last command represents the internal index number of SYSB. This number is determined by the order in which systems are defined on the DEFSYS statement. In this example, it is the second system defined. The system name and alias fields are also acquired from the DEFSYS statement.

Note: You can check system names, aliases, and index numbers by issuing the DISPLAY SYSTEMS command.

1. Assume TSO user USERID1 is logged on to SYSA. To enable USERID1 to issue display commands to the TEST system, issue this cross-system LINK command:

   @SYSA @LINK TSOUSER=USERID1 SYSID=TEST AUTH=INFO
   

   CA MIM on the local system routes this command to CA MIM on SYSA.

2. To issue the JES2 DISPLAY INITIATOR command to all systems except the local system, issue this cross-system command:

   @EXT $DI
   

   The dollar character ($) is the JES2 command character. CA MIM on the local system routes this command to all external systems. The responses are returned to the local console that issued the command.

3. To issue the z/OS DISPLAY TIME command on all systems, including the local system, issue this cross-system command:

   @ALL D T
   

4. To issue the z/OS DISPLAY ACTIVE command to systems SYSA, SYSB, and SYSC using the alias SITE1, you would issue the following two commands in the order shown:

   DEFALIAS SITE1 (SYSA,SYSB,SYSC)
   @SITE1 D A,L
   

5. To issue a DISPLAY OVERLAYS command to a command processor named OLDCMDPR, issue this cross-system command on system SYSB:

   @(SYSB) F OLDCMDPR,DISPLAY OVERLAYS