Adding commands to the command table

To extend the function of the Information Center Facilityyou can add your own commands to the command table, ICQCMDS. For example, you can add commands to enter dialogs, to act as aliases of other commands, or to execute CLISTs. After you have added the new commands, you can enter them on the COMMAND or OPTION line of any panel in the Information Center Facility.

Each entry in ICQCMDS consists of four fields: the command, the truncation permitted, the action the command performs, and a description of the command.IBM® ships the following commands in ICQCMDS:

Command: Purpose
ADMIN: To display the primary administrator menu panel.
IC: To display the primary user menu panel.
GO: To go to a specific option, type GO followed by the keyword for the option.

If ICQCMDS is not in use, you can add commands to it using option 3.9 in ISPF/PDF. If ICQCMDS is in use, you cannot use option 3.9, but must copy ICQCMDS to a data set with a different name, modify the copy, and replace the original. For more information about adding commands to a command table, see .

Note: Before modifying the command table, consider that commands execute before keywords. If, for example, you defined a command NEWS to display reminders, you would not be able to enter the news function by typing NEWS.