Purpose

z/OS® provides a command-line interface called cimcli through which you can perform CIM client requests/operations. It implements most of the DMTF CIM operations except for the modifyClass, modifyInstance and createClass operations.

Each execution of cimcli invokes a CIM operation with the corresponding parameters equivalent to the CIM operations defined in the CIM Operations over HTTP specification.

In addition to the basic CIM operations defined in this specification, the cimcli command-line interface implements a number of other specific operations that support testing and querying CIM servers, including operations to query for namespaces and to get all instances in a namespace.

The command-line client is invoked from the UNIX System Services shell.