Running an MVS executable program from a z/OS UNIX shell

If your z/OS UNIX application resides in MVS™ data sets and you need to run the application executable program from within a shell, you can pass a call to the module to TSO/E. In many cases, you can also use the tso utility. If you entered the shell from TSO/E using the OMVS command, you can use the TSO function key to pass the command to TSO/E. For example, if your executable program is myprog in data set my.loadlib, type the following (from the shell) to pass the command to TSO/E:

tso "call 'my.loadlib(myprog)'"

When the program completes, the shell session is restored. You can also run an MVS program from a shell by associating it with an HFS file by using sticky-bit or external link. See z/OS UNIX System Services Command Reference for more information about the chmod and the ln commands.