General command format
The standard command format for producing reports and extracts is:
Name | Command | Operands | Comments |
---|---|---|---|
name in columns 1-8 (or blank) | CICSPA | one or more operands | comments (or blank) |
The general format of the command as it appears in the SYSIN
DD statement of your job stream is:
CICSPA operand[(suboperand)][,operand[(suboperand)],...]
- Name
- Optional. Identifies the command. It is a label from one to eight characters long and must start in column 1. It must not be a command name or an acceptable abbreviation of a command name.
- Command
- Required. The CICSPA command requests CICS PA reports and extracts.
- Operands
- One or more operands are required to specify which reports and
extracts you want, and specify options for these. An operand is either a report operand or a control operand:
- A report operand. Each time one is specified, a new report or extract is created.
- A control operand. When specified as a global operand before
report operands, it affects all the following reports and extracts
until it is next specified. Each time it is specified, it overrides
its previous setting. This is useful if you want to run multiple variations
of a number of reports. (Note that SELECT is an
exception to this rule; new selection criteria are added to
those previously specified.)
Some control operands, such as SELECT and LINECount, might be specified as suboperands of report operands. As report-level operands, they apply only to the particular report or extract, and override the global specification.
Operands can be specified as many times as required, separated by commas. They can have suboperands and value lists. The rules for continuations, delimiters, and the formats of the operand values are described in Rules for operands.
- Comments
- Optional. Separated by at least one blank from the last operand on the line.