Nearly all TSO/E commands have abbreviations that you can use in place of the full command name. These abbreviations save you entry time at the terminal. If a command can be abbreviated, it has only one accepted IBM® abbreviation. For example, ALLOC is the abbreviation for ALLOCATE and E is the abbreviation for EDIT. To find the accepted abbreviation for commands used in this topic, refer to Table 1 or see z/OS TSO/E Command Reference.

For readability and clarity in this topic, most references to commands and examples of their use appear in the long form.