General Part

• Preface
  • Objectives and target groups of this manual
  • Summary of contents
  • Changes since the last edition of the manual
  • Notational conventions
• General Topics
  • Format of the SDF command language
  • Conventions for input
  • SDF syntax representation
  • Input compression
    • Abbreviation of names
    • Default values
    • Positional operands
    • Compressing structures
  • Replacing expressions in the input
  • Language for SDF output
  • Return codes
    • Structure of command return codes
    • General command return codes
  • Conditional expressions (job variables)
  • System files
  • Job switches
  • Volume type table
  • DMS volume types
    • Volume type for Net-Storage
    • Volume types for DMS tape processing
  • Information services of device management: Meanings of the output values of SHOW commands
  • Time limits in BS2000
  • Overview of test privileges
  • Working with S variables
    • General notes on command output
    • Command output in S variables
      • S variable stream mechanism (SYSINF, SYSMSG and SYSVAR)
      • Declaring S variables
      • Assigning S variable streams
      • S variable format
      • Accessing S variables
      • Re-using S variables
    • Command overview
    • Notes on conventions used in the tables
      • S variable data types
      • Explanation of the columns
  • SDF-P-BASYS
    • Structured procedure format (S procedures)
    • Block-oriented error recovery
    • Variables concept (S variables)
      • Variable name
      • Variable type
      • Scope
      • Declaration
      • Expressions
    • Builtin functions
    • INSTALLATION-PATH( ) - Output path name
    • IS-CATALOGED-JV( ) - Interrogate job variable
    • IS-INITIALIZED( ) - Check variable initialization
    • IS-SDF-P( ) - Check whether SDF-P is loaded
    • JV( ) - Interrogate job variable
    • MAINCODE( ) - Interrogate error code
    • MSG( ) - Output message text
    • SDF-P-VERSION( ) - Interrogate SDF-P version
    • SUBCODE1( ) - Interrogate subcode1
    • SUBCODE2( ) - Interrogate subcode2
    • Commands supported by SDF-P-BASYS
    • Subsystem installation
• Overviews
  • Overview of main functions of the BS2000 commands
  • Domains
  • Commands and their privileges
  • Command aliases
  • Commands of internal components
• Related publications