z/OS V1R9.0 TSO/E Command Reference

OUTDES CommandCodingrulesFor more information about multiple media destinations and OUTBIN processingsee PSF/MVS Application Programming Guide.v The following characters are valid in strings with quotation marks:– Any valid EBCDIC character– Two consecutive single quotation marks to specify a single quote in a quotedstring– Enclose values that contain blanks in quotation marks.– A semicolon (;) is allowed within a quoted string unless you are issuing thecommand under ISPF or PCF. When under ISPF or PCF, the semicolon or thealternate character your installation may have specified as the commanddelimiter, still functions as a command delimiter and may cause a syntax error.v The following characters are valid in strings without quotation marks:– Alphanumeric– Special Characters:- @ is represented as X'7C'- $ is represented as X'5B'- # is represented as X'7B'.Character sets that use hexadecimal representations other than those listedpreviously might cause an error.OUTDES command return codesTable 27. OUTDES command return codes0 Processing successful.12 The installation exit requested termination.16 Processing unsuccessful.OUTDES command examplesExample 1This example shows how the OUTDES, ALLOCATE, and FREE commands worktogether to define, reference, and free the dynamic output descriptor.Operation: Specify the OUTDES command to define the dynamic output descriptor.Known:v Name of the new output descriptor: MULTCOPYv Number of copies: 3v Pages are to be burstv Output class: Ioutdes multcopy copies(3) burst class(i) newOperation: Specify the ALLOCATE command to reference the dynamic outputdescriptor.Known:v Name of the file: SYSPRINTv Name of the output descriptor: MULTCOPYallocate file(sysprint) new outdes(multcopy)Chapter 1. TSO/E commands and subcommands 209