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Statement and Command Delimiters

Follow these rules when delimiting information on CA MIM statements and commands:

• When using statement and command delimiter characters as operand values, enclose the operand value with single quotes. The comma, blank, equal sign, right parenthesis, left parenthesis, and single quote are all considered to be delimiter characters.

  For example, to designate the text string, (M), as a message prefix character string operand specify:

  MIMINIT MSGPREFIX='(M)'
  

• When using a single quote character as an operand value, place two consecutive single quote characters together and enclose the operand value with single quotes.

  For example, to indicate that a single quote character is to be used as the subsystem command prefix character for CA MIM command recognition specify:

  SETOPTION MIM CMDPREFIX=''''
  

• Use a comma or space to delimit the statement name from parameters and to delimit the command name from operands.

  For example, the following commands produce the same output:

  DISPLAY,INIT
  DISPLAY INIT
  

• Use a comma or space to delimit parameters and operands when you specify several parameters or operands.

  For example, the following commands produce the same output:

  DISPLAY INIT,OPTIONS 
  DISPLAY INIT OPTIONS
  

• Use an equal sign or parentheses to delimit keywords from values. If you specify more than one value (such as several system IDs) for a keyword, then enclose the set of values in parentheses.

  For example, you could specify either of the following to distinguish the keyword SYSID from the value 01:

  SYSID=01
  SYSID(01) 
  

• Use a hyphen to delimit items in a range, and use either spaces or commas to delimit items in a list.

  For example, you could specify one of the following:

  VARY (A10-A12) ONLINE
  VARY (A10 A11 A12) ONLINE
  VARY (A10,A11,A12) ONLINE
  

• If you omit a variable that represents a positional operand or parameter, then substitute a comma for that variable. You need to do this when you are displaying global or local device status information (on a DISPLAY command) or when you are defining system IDs (on a DEFSYS statement or an IDEFSYS command).

  For example, if you skip the alias name on a DEFSYS statement and you then specify the SMF ID SYS1, your DEFSYS statement would look like this:

  DEFSYS (SYSA,,SYS1)
  

Including Comments in Parameter Files

CA MIM gives you two ways to include comments in parameter files:

• Place an asterisk character (*) in column 1 to indicate that a line is a comment and not a command or statement.

  You can place lines of comments between lines of continued commands or statements.

• Place a slash and then an asterisk (/*) before a comment written on a command or statement line to distinguish the comment from the command or statement. The command or statement must precede the /* character string. Otherwise, it is treated as a comment.

Continuation

End each statement or command before column 73. If a command or statement does not fit in columns 1-72 of a line, then continue the entry on the next line by typing a comma (,) at the end of the current line. Then type the rest of the command or statement on the next line.