Interactive command processing

To use interactive command processing, omit the ddname input parameter when using the FILE format of FLMCMD. You then get a prompt for the Command lines. SCLM processes your input exactly as if the commands were in a command data set.

Figure 1 shows a sample interactive command session.

Figure 1. Sample Interactive Command Session (ISRTSO)

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                               ISPF Command Shell
 Enter TSO or Workstation commands below:

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 Place cursor on choice and press enter to Retrieve command

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 Enter a command line; press enter to process a command line; or 'QUIT'
LOCK,PROJ1,,USER1,SOURCE,FLM01MD2,TESTAC,XXX#04,USERID

To end interactive command processing, enter the QUIT command.

Note:

You must perform interactive command processing, like all SCLM processing, from an ISPF environment. Otherwise, the following error message appears:
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ISPS118 SERVICE NOT INVOKED. A VALID ISPF ENVIRONMENT DOES NOT EXIST.
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During interactive command processing, you can enter comment lines but you cannot enter continuation lines.
If you allocate the ddname to your screen and also specify it on the FILE format of FLMCMD, you can get unpredictable results.

For a description of the FLMCMD return codes, see SCLM service return codes.