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How You Abbreviate and Truncate Statements and Commands

Although you cannot truncate statement names (such as MIMINIT), you can use non-ambiguous truncations for most CA MIM command names. For example, SET is an acceptable truncation for the SETOPTION command name. Note that D is an acceptable truncation for the DISPLAY command, even though there are other command names that start with the letter D.

You can truncate parameters or operands as long as the truncations are non-ambiguous. For example, because VCFF is an acceptable truncation for the VCFFORCE operand on the SETOPTION MIM command, you can issue this command to activate the VCFFORCE function:

SET VCFF=ON

You cannot use a shorter truncation for VCFFORCE than VCFF because the abbreviation would be ambiguous with the VCFRECOVERY operand on the SETOPTION MIM command.

Note: You cannot truncate command names for the FREE, CP, or ICMF commands.