NET/MASTER Management Services (MS) System Management Guide

How Users Access External Utilities
Managing Access to External Utilities and Applications
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(CIP) receives the OPSYS command and searches the utility definition databases
for information with which the process will start the external utility session.
The CIP searches the customized utility definition database first. If the customized
utility definition database does not contain a record for the utility, the process
searches the distributed utility definition database. See “Defining External
Utilities,” later in this section, for a detailed discussion of the utility definition
databases.
Figure 6-1. Accessing an External Utility With the OPSYS Command
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FUP INFO $DATA1.MYFILES.*
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Utility
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Command Set
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Utility Definition
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FUP
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OPSYS NCL
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5. Using the information from the utility definition record, the CIP starts a session
with the external utility.
In this example, the CIP starts a FUP process and sends the following command to
the process:
INFO $DATA1.MYFILES.*