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Command Characters for Subsystem Commands

z/OS supports the use of special command characters to identify the subsystem to which a command entered from the console is directed. The following is a list of commonly used command characters. When you use OPSCMD to issue the command, you must prefix the command with the appropriate subsystem command character to address a command to one of the subsystems in this list.

$

JES2 command.

* or 8

JES3 command. While you can omit the command character when issuing a JES3 command from a JES3 console, you must include the character when issuing a JES3 command through OPSCMD.

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DB2 command. You can change the DB2 command character by modifying its entry in the appropriate IEFSSNxx member of the Logical Parmlib Concatenation.