The ISTDEFIN command list accepts one or more device addresses, gets information about each device, defines it to VTAM®, ensures that each device is online, and activates the VTAM resource definitions. You can call the ISTDEFIN command list using the following format:

          Call ISTDEFIN func_code dev_str

The parameters provide the following information:

func_code

One of the following function codes that indicate how the input device addresses correlate to the device processed by the command list:

1

Process only device addresses passed to this command list.

2

Use input device address as a base address to locate communication, display or CTC device to process.

dev_str

A string of one or more hexadecimal device addresses separated by blanks.

For example, if you wanted to call the ISTDEFIN command list with a function code of 1 and 3 device addresses, X'00A', X'123', and X'FE3', you would use the following command:

      ISTDEFIN 1 A 123 FE3