End user commands

TSO/E includes a set of commands that you can enter at your terminal to communicate quickly and directly with the system. Table 1 lists, in alphabetical order, the TSO/E commands for end users. For more information about what the commands do and how to use them, see z/OS TSO/E Command Reference.

Table 1. Summary of the TSO/E commands
Command	Function
ALLOCATE	Dynamically allocates data sets.
ALTLIB	Defines alternative application-level libraries of REXX execs or CLISTs.
ATTRIB	Builds a list of attributes for non-VSAM data sets.
CALL	Loads and executes a program.
CANCEL	Ends the processing of batch jobs submitted at your terminal.
DELETE	Deletes data set entries or members of a partitioned data set.
EDIT	Creates, modifies, stores, submits, retrieves, and deletes data sets. See command definitions for definitions of EDIT subcommands.
END	Ends a CLIST.
EXEC	Executes a CLIST or REXX exec.
EXECUTIL	Changes various characteristics that control how REXX execs execute in the TSO/E address space.
FREE	Releases previously allocated data sets, changes the output of a SYSOUT data set, deletes attribute lists, or changes data set disposition. The FREE command also frees dynamic output descriptors created using the OUTDES command.
HELP	Gets information about the function, syntax, and operands of commands and subcommands and information about certain messages.
LINK	Invokes the linkage editor service program.
LISTALC	Lists data sets that are currently allocated to the TSO/E session.
LISTBC	Displays messages of general interest.
LISTCAT	Lists entries from a catalog by name or entry type.
LISTDS	Displays attributes of data sets.
LOADGO	Loads a compiled or assembled program into real storage and begins execution.
LOGOFF	Ends your terminal session.
LOGON	Starts your terminal session.
MVSSERV	Starts a TSO/E Enhanced Connectivity Facility session between an IBM® Personal Computer (PC), IBM 3270 PC, or Personal System/2 and a host computer running TSO/E on MVS™.
OUTDES	Creates or reuses dynamic output descriptors. (Supported for JES2 only)
OUTPUT	Directs output from a job to your terminal or to a specific data set; deletes the output, changes output class, routes output to a remote workstation, or releases the output for a job for printing by the subsystem.
PRINTDS	Formats and prints data sets on any printer defined to JES.
PROFILE	Changes or lists your user profile.
PROTECT	Prevents unauthorized access to your non-VSAM data sets.
RECEIVE	Retrieves transmitted files and restores them to their original format.
RENAME	Changes the name of a non-VSAM cataloged data set, changes the member name of a partitioned data set, or creates an alias for a partitioned data set member.
RUN	Compiles, loads, and executes the source statements in a data set.
SEND	Sends a message to another terminal user or to the system operator.
SMCOPY	Copies all or part of a stream or data set to another stream or data set.
SMFIND	Locates a string of characters in a stream.
SMPUT	Places a string of characters in a stream.
STATUS	Displays the status of a job.
SUBMIT	Submits one or more batch jobs for processing.
TERMINAL	Lists or changes operating characteristics of your terminal.
TEST	Tests a program or command processor written in Assembler language.
TRANSMIT	Sends information, such as a message or a copy of information in a data set, to another user in the network.
TSOEXEC	Invokes an authorized command from an unauthorized environment.
TSOLIB	Defines alternative load module libraries to a user's session.
VLFNOTE¹	Notifies the virtual lookaside facility (VLF) that a change has been made to a partitioned data set or a non-partitioned data set.
WHEN	Tests return codes from programs invoked from an immediately preceding CALL or LOADGO command, and to take prescribed action if the return code meets a specified condition.
¹ The VLFNOTE command is an MVS/ESA SP command that TSO/E supports.