Using Commands Specific to an Operating System

How to:

A Dialogue Manager procedure executes commands that are specific to an operating system. Operating systems include IBM i, VM, MVS/TSO, Windows, UNIX, and OpenVMS.


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Syntax: How to Execute Commands With a Dialogue Manager Procedure
[operating system] command

where:

[operating system]

Specifies the operating system. Possible values are:

-AS/400, AS/400 or CMD specifies the IBM i operating system.

-CMS or CMS specifies the CMS operating system.

-DOS or DOS specifies the DOS operating system.

-TSO RUN or TSO RUN specifies the MVS/TSO operating system.

-UNIX or UNIX specifies the UNIX operating system.

-VMS or VMS specifies the VMS operating system.

-WINNT or WINNT specifies the Windows NT operating system.

! for a generic request to specify a non-specific operating system.

command

Is an operating system command.

Specifications starting with a dash (-) are executed in the normal flow of Dialogue Manager commands. Commands that do not start with a dash (-) are stacked until execution is forced by an end of file or a -RUN. Note that there is no -! feature.


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