User Modes: Initiating Output Retrieval › Changing Modes with the MODE Command

Changing Modes with the MODE Command

Use the MODE command to change your current access mode. You can:

• Change to other modes to which you have pre-designated access once you are online in the system
• Change the Distribution Id associated with your predefined User Profile for EXP and SAR Mode

Enter the MODE command with the appropriate parameter on the command line of any Primary Selection panel, then press Enter.

The format is:

MODE mode

MODE mode distid

MODE distid mode

MODE distid

where mode is:

One of the five user modes:

• ALL
• EXPO (CA Deliver Operations)
• EXP (CA Deliver)
• SARO (SAR Operations)
• SAR

where distid is:

A distribution ID that you are allowed to access, given the value of DISTID MASK in your user profile.

Note: If distid contains an embedded blank, parenthesis, quote, or a comma, enclose it in quotes (single or double). Any quote within the Dist-ID must be entered as a pair of quotes because a non-paired quote ends the ID; for example, if the value is JIM’S DESK, enter it as ‘JIM’’S DESK’ or “JIM’S DESK”.

The format is:

MODE EXP distid
MODE SAR userid

The following are examples of how to change modes with the mode command:

• To change to EXP mode from some other mode:

  MODE EXP
  

• To change to SAR mode for Distribution Id ACCTCLK:

  MODE SAR ACCTCLK
  

• To change EXP Mode Distribution ID to PAYMGR while in EXP Mode:

  MODE PAYMGR