Parameters › Command-related Parameters › SSICMD Parameter

SSICMD Parameter

This parameter determines whether CA OPS/MVS processes commands before or after subsystems such as JES, DB2, and NetView. CA recommends that you set the value of the SSICMD parameter to YES.

• When setting SSICMD do review this information.
• If the subsystem processes the command before CA OPS/MVS, then command text changes specified in a command rule are ignored.
• If CA OPS/MVS processes the command first, the command that the subsystem processes is the changed version. That is, it is the command as modified by the rule.
• If SSICMD is set to YES, CA OPS/MVS processes commands first.
• If SSICMD is set to NO, CA OPS/MVS processes commands after nearly all of the other subsystems have done so (depending on the order of the subsystems).
• To effectively intercept a command before any other subsystem processes it, perform:

Follow these steps:

1. Set the SSICMD parameter to YES.
2. Within the CMD rule logic, set the cmd.text environmental variable to null (cmd.text='') before exiting the rule with a RETURN 'ACCEPT.' For an example of intercepting and processing a JES2 command, see the AOF rule sample member JES2$TJ.

For a sample program that displays the names of all subsystems in use, see the SCANSSCT REXX program, which is distributed with CA OPS/MVS.

Default value

YES

This value causes CA OPS/MVS to process commands first. YES is the recommended setting.

Other possible values

NO

This value causes CA OPS/MVS to process commands after other subsystems.

Set or modify this parameter…

At initialization

Example: SSICMD

This function enables CA OPS/MVS command rules to process commands after other subsystems.

OPSPRM('SET','SSICMD','NO')