Sending Messages with the TRANSMIT Command

The TRANSMIT command allows you to send the following to users on your system node and on other system nodes:

A message
A data set
Selected members of a partitioned data set
A message with a data set

A typical TRANSMIT command to transmit a message is as follows:

TRANSMIT node_id.user_id

The system then prompts you for the message text.

For information on transmitting a data set, see Sending and Receiving Data Sets.

Your installation may use various security options to customize how the TRANSMIT command works. Because transmitting a message is essentially the same as transmitting a data set, see Security Considerations for Sending and Receiving Data Sets for more information about security concerns using the TRANSMIT command.