Summary of Directory Statements
Table 1 describes the directory statements. It shows where the statement is described, the statement category, and a brief summary of the statement's function. Although the directory statements are listed in alphabetic order, this is not the order in which they can be coded in the directory.
| Statement | Category | Function | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACCOUNT | General (2) | Defines the account numbers to which a virtual machine charges its costs. It also defines a distribution code. | ACCOUNT Directory Statement |
| ACIGROUP | General (2) | Specifies the name of a group to which an individual user ID is assigned. | ACIGROUP Directory Statement |
| APPCPASS | General (2) | Allows a virtual machine to request an APPC/VM path without supplying security parameters, even when the equivalent of SECURITY (PGM) is indicated on the APPCVM CONNECT request. | APPCPASS Directory Statement |
| AUTOLOG | General (2) | A synonym for XAUTOLOG. See XAUTOLOG XAUTOLOG Directory Statement. | AUTOLOG Directory Statement |
| BUILD | Control | Used for the SSI environment; specifies a system name and subconfiguration entry, which in turn specifies the SSI member-specific configuration for a multiconfiguration virtual machine instance. | BUILD Directory Statement |
| CLASS | General (2) | Specifies the privilege class (or classes) assigned to an individual user. | CLASS Directory Statement |
| COMMAND | General (1) | Specifies a command to be executed after the virtual machine is logged on, and before the virtual machine is IPLed. | COMMAND Directory Statement |
| CONSOLE | Device (1) | Defines a virtual machine operator's console. | CONSOLE Directory Statement |
| CPU | General (2) | Specifies a virtual processor that is to be defined automatically when the user logs on to the system. | CPU Directory Statement |
| CRYPTO | General (1) | Authorizes the user to define virtual cryptographic facilities and provides the guest access to the crypto domains on the cryptographic cards. | CRYPTO Directory Statement |
| DASDOPT | Device (1) | An extension to the DEDICATE, LINK, and MDISK statements. | DASDOPT Directory Statement |
| DATEFORMAT | General (1) | Specifies a user's default date format for commands that provide multiple date formats. | DATEFORMAT Directory Statement |
| DEDICATE | Device (1) | Specifies that a real device is to be used solely by the virtual machine, or that a real tape device is to be shared with other users. | DEDICATE Directory Statement |
| DIRECTORY | Control | Defines the device on which the directory resides and must be the first statement in the directory. | DIRECTORY Directory Statement |
| D8ONECMD | General (2) | Defines whether a virtual machine can issue multiple CP commands with DIAGNOSE code X'08'. | D8ONECMD Directory Statement |
| GLOBALDEFS | Control | Signifies the beginning of the global entry. | GLOBALDEFS Directory Statement |
| GLOBALOPTS | Global | Used to define global settings to be used while processing virtual machine definitions. | GLOBALOPTS Directory Statement |
| IDENTITY | Control | Used for the single system image environment:
|
IDENTITY Directory Statement |
| INCLUDE | Control | Specifies the name of a profile entry to be invoked as part of the user entry. | INCLUDE Directory Statement |
| IOPRIORITY | General (2) | Defines a virtual machine's I/O priority queueing range. | IOPRIORITY Directory Statement |
| IPL | General (1) | Designates a device number or named saved system that CP automatically loads (IPLs) when the user logs on to the system. | IPL Directory Statement |
| IUCV | General (2) | Authorizes a virtual machine to create an IUCV communication path with another virtual machine. | IUCV Directory Statement |
| LINK | Device (1) | Accesses another virtual machine's minidisk. | LINK Directory Statement |
| LOAD | Control | Specifies where the directory entry is to be found. The LOAD statement is valid only in a cluster file format directory. | LOAD Directory Statement |
| LOADDEV | General (1) | Identifies the location of a program to be loaded as a result of a list-directed IPL. Parameters to be passsed to the program can also be defined. | LOADDEV Directory Statement |
| LOGONBY | General (2) | Designates up to eight user IDs that can use their own passwords to logon to and use a virtual machine. | LOGONBY Directory Statement |
| MACHINE | General (2) | Defines the virtual machine mode (ESA, XA, XC, or Z) and the number of virtual processors a virtual machine can define. | MACHINE Directory Statement |
| MAXSTORAGE | General (1) | Specifies the virtual storage size for a user. | MAXSTORAGE Directory Statement |
| MDISK | Device (2) | Defines virtual disks (minidisks): permanent minidisks, temporary minidisks, and virtual disks in storage. | MDISK Directory Statement |
| MINIOPT | Device (2) | An extension to MDISK used when defining non-full-pack minidisks. | MINIOPT Directory Statement |
| NAMESAVE | General (2) | Authorizes a virtual machine to access a restricted named saved system or saved segment and authorizes the virtual machine to obtain an exclusive writeable copy of a saved segment. | NAMESAVE Directory Statement |
| NICDEF | Device (1) | Defines virtual network adapters that are fully simulated by CP. | NICDEF Directory Statement |
| NOPDATA | General (2) | Authorizes a virtual machine to use NOP CCWs to transfer data to CP spool files. | NOPDATA Directory Statement |
| OPTION | General (1, 2) | Defines certain options available to the virtual machine. | OPTION Directory Statement |
| POOL | Control | Allows a set of virtual machines to be defined with the same configuration or characteristics. | POOL Directory Statement |
| POSIXGLIST | General (2) | Specifies all POSIX groups of which the user is a member. | POSIXGLIST Directory Statement |
| POSIXGROUP | Global | Defines a POSIX group. | POSIXGROUP Directory Statement |
| POSIXINFO | General (2) | Specifies a user's POSIX information. | POSIXINFO Directory Statement |
| POSIXOPT | General (2) | Specifies option settings related to a user's POSIX capabilities. | POSIXOPT Directory Statement |
| PROFILE | Control | Defines the start of a profile entry. | PROFILE Directory Statement |
| SCREEN | General (1) | Defines the extended color and extended highlighting options for the virtual machine console. | SCREEN Directory Statement |
| SHARE | General (1) | Specifies a virtual machine's scheduler share. | SHARE Directory Statement |
| SPECIAL | Device (1) | Defines virtual displays, communication lines, and channel-to-channel adapters that can or cannot be connected to real devices when the user logs on. | SPECIAL Directory Statement |
| SPOOL | Device (1) | Defines virtual unit record devices (spooling devices). | SPOOL Directory Statement |
| SPOOLFILE | General (1) | Describes virtual machine spool file characteristics. | SPOOLFILE Directory Statement |
| STDEVOPT | General (2) | Specifies the optional storage device management functions available to the virtual machine. | STDEVOPT Directory Statement |
| STORAGE | General (1) | Specifies the virtual storage size for a user. | STORAGE Directory Statement |
| SUBCONFIG | Control | Used in the single system image environment; begins the entry for an SSI member-specific configuration for a multiconfiguration virtual machine instance. | SUBCONFIG Directory Statement |
| SYSAFFIN | Control | Defines how, and to which systems of a multiple-system complex, the subsequent statements apply. | SYSAFFIN Directory Statement |
| USER | Control |
|
USER Directory Statement |
| VMRELOCATE | General (2) | Controls relocation capability of specified user. | VMRELOCATE Directory Statement |
| XAUTOLOG | General (2) | Designates user IDs that can enter an XAUTOLOG command for the virtual machine. | XAUTOLOG Directory Statement |
| XCONFIG | General (1) | Specifies control parameters for the extended-configuration facilities provided in the ESA/XC and z/XC virtual machine architectures: access lists and data spaces. | XCONFIG Directory Statement |
| Blank Line | Can appear anywhere in the directory control file. When the DIRECTXA utility processes the directory control file, it ignores blank lines. | ||
| Asterisk (*) | Any line in the source directory file that begins with an asterisk (*) is a comment. When the DIRECTXA utility processes the directory control file, it ignores comment statements. |