Work with Image Catalogs (WRKIMGCLG)
| Where allowed to run: Interactive environments (*INTERACT *IPGM *IREXX *EXEC) Threadsafe: No |
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The Work with Image Catalogs (WRKIMGCLG) command is used to work with the image catalogs that exist on the system. This command allows the user to specify a specific catalog name, a generic name, or *ALL. The WRKIMGCLG command allows the user to perform the following functions on the image catalogs:
- Create
- This option allows the user to create a new image catalog.
- Change
- This option allows the user to change the attributes of the image catalog.
- Delete
- This option allows the user to delete the image catalog. All image files associated with the image catalog will also be deleted.
- Load
- This option allows the user to load the image catalog into a virtual device.
- Unload
- This option allows the user to unload the image catalog from the virtual device.
- Verify
- This option allows the user to verify the image catalog for a software upgrade or PTF install.
- Work with entries
- This option allows the user to work with the image catalog entries in the image catalog.
Restrictions:
- The following authorities are required to view information about an image catalog:
- Execute (*EXECUTE) authority to library QUSRSYS.
- Use (*USE) authority to the image catalog.
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Parameters
| Keyword | Description | Choices | Notes |
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| IMGCLG | Image catalog | Generic name, name, *ALL | Optional, Positional 1 |
| TYPE | Image catalog type | *ALL, *OPT, *TAP | Optional, Positional 2 |
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Image catalog (IMGCLG)
Specifies the image catalogs to be shown.
This is a required parameter.
- *ALL
- All image catalogs are shown.
- generic-name
- Specify the generic name of the image catalogs to be shown. A generic name is a character string that contains one or more characters followed by an asterisk (*). If a generic name is specified, all image catalogs that have names with the same prefix as the generic name are shown.
- name
- Specify the name of the image catalog to be shown.
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Image catalog type (TYPE)
Specifies the type of image catalog to work with.
- *ALL
- List all types of image catalogs.
- *OPT
- List only optical image catalogs.
- *TAP
- List only tape image catalogs.
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Examples
Example 1: Working with Image Catalogs by Generic Name
WRKIMGCLG IMGCLG(UPGRADE*)
This command displays the Work with Image Catalog panel showing all image catalogs whose names begin with UPGRADE.
Example 2: Working with All Image Catalogs
WRKIMGCLG IMGCLG(*ALL)
This command displays the Work with Image Catalog panel showing all image catalogs that exist.
Example 3: Working with All Tape Image Catalogs
WRKIMGCLG IMGCLG(*ALL) TYPE(*TAP)
This command displays the Work with Image Catalog panel showing all tape image catalogs that exist.
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