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EPI BIND—Dedicate a VTAM Session

Use this command to temporarily dedicate a VTAM application session to a specific CA OPS/MVS TSO user, CLIST, or REXX EXEC. While a session is bound, the TSO user or automation procedure that issued the BIND command can send commands to that session without interruption from other users or procedures.

This command has the following format:

ADDRESS EPI "BIND keywords"
  {sessid}
  [,waittime]
  [,SUBSYS(ssid)]

sessid

Defines the session ID for the CA OPS/MVS-monitored VTAM session to be bound.

waittime

(Optional) Defines the time, in seconds, that CA OPS/MVS waits for the session to become available. If the session does not become available in the allotted time, CA OPS/MVS cancels the BIND attempt with a return code of 20.

The waittime can be from 1 to 600 seconds.

Default: 60

SUBSYS

(Optional) Addresses the command to a copy of CA OPS/MVS with a subsystem ID other than the default subsystem ID.

Default: OPSS

Example: EPI BIND

The following binds the VTAM session with session ID CICS1 and waits for up to two minutes:

BIND CICS1,120