RECEIVE command

The complete syntax and function of the RECEIVE command are described in z/OS TSO/E Command Reference. The parameters described here are intended for your use. You may use them, in conjunction with corresponding parameters on the TRANSMIT command, to test your exit routines and debug user-written control records. (See z/OS TSO/E Customization for detailed information on the exit routines and control records.)

The syntax of the RECEIVE command is:

Start of changeYou cannot explicitly specify ENTER DSNAME, SPACE, UNIT, VOL,OLD/NEW, OR RESTORE/COPY/DELETE/END as a parameter on the RECEIVE command. They are responses to the RECEIVE prompting message INMR909I.End of change
  • RECEIVE is an authorized command.
USERID
The specification of a user ID other than your own. (The specification of this parameter requires OPERATOR authority or authorization through the RECEIVE initialization exit (INMRZ01).
userid
Any user ID (The user ID may exist in SYS1.UADS or the RACF® data base at the target node or may be a nonexistent user ID.)
COPY
Do not restore the transmitted data to its original format, but copy it ‘as is’ from the JES SPOOL. (The use of this operand allows you to examine the data in its transmitted form to debug problems when RECEIVE cannot process the transmitted data.)
INDDNAME | INFILE
A pre-allocated file used as the input data set to receive the transmitted data. Define the data set with RECFM=F, FB, V, VB, or U. For F and FB, LRECL=80. The remaining DCB attributes are installation options.
ddname
The name on a DD statement that identifies the data set. The data set may be sequential or partitioned but must be the same as the specification for OUTDDNAME or OUTFILE.
INDSNAME | INDATASET
A sequential data set used as the input data set to receive the transmitted data. Define the data set with RECFM=F, FB, V, VB, or U. For F and FB, LRECL=80. The remaining DCB attributes are installation options.
dsn
The name of a sequential data set.
value:
a name that conforms to TSO/E data set naming conventions