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PaulClarke · Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2016 2:49 pm Post subject:

Well actually it is more a question that z/OS didn't support PCF messages at all for many releases. Where as for the Distributed product you needed to wrap the MQSC command in an ESCAPE PCF for the z/OS product you just send the command server the string itself.

So, it almost seems too simple but if you send a string message of DIS Q(*) to the z/OS command queue it will process the command and send the results to the reply queue. Assuming you have authority of course. So, you could use AMQSPUT or Q program if you wished.

Parsing the responses from z/OS is the tricky bit since the z/OS command server has a contact admin habit of blank padding everything! So what you get back is hard to read. MO72 spends a fair amount of its time trying to format the data so it is a little more palatable. Another complication of course is the coupling facility where a single command can cause multiple responses. MO72 tries to sort these out but our MQSCX product does a much better job of it since it is a much more sophisticated program. MQSCX also makes parsing and post processing the responses trivial.

Hope that helps,

Paul.
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