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– A single asterisk (for example, TRACE(*)) (on OS/400 these must be enclosed

in single quotation marks)

– A range specification containing a colon (for example, CLASS(01:03))

If the string itself contains a quotation mark, the quotation mark is represented

by two single quotation marks. Lowercase characters not contained within

quotation marks are folded to uppercase.

v A string containing no characters (that is, two single quotation marks with no

space in between) is not valid.

v A left parenthesis followed by a right parenthesis, with no significant

information in between, for example

NAME ( )

is not valid except where specifically noted.

v Keywords are not case sensitive – AltER, alter, and ALTER are all acceptable.

Names that are not contained within quotation marks are converted to

uppercase.

v Synonyms are defined for some parameters. For example, DEF is always a

synonym for DEFINE, so DEF QLOCAL is valid. Synonyms are not, however,

just minimum strings; DEFI is not a valid synonym for DEFINE.

Note: There is no synonym for the DELETE parameter. This is to avoid

accidental deletion of objects when using DEF, the synonym for DEFINE.

Characters with special meanings

The following characters have special meaning when you build MQSC commands:

Blanks are used as separators. Multiple blanks are equivalent to a single blank, except in strings that

have quotation marks (') round them.

, Commas are used as separators. Multiple commas are equivalent to a single comma, except in strings

that have quotation marks (') round them.

' A single quotation mark indicates the beginning or end of a string. MQSeries leaves all characters that

have quotation marks round them exactly as they are entered. The containing quotation marks are not

included when calculating the length of the string.

'' Two quotation marks together inside a string are treated by MQSeries as one quotation mark, and the

string is not terminated. The double quotation marks are treated as one character when calculating the

length of the string.

( An open parenthesis indicates the beginning of a parameter list.

) A close parenthesis indicates the end of a parameter list.

: A colon indicates an inclusive range. For example (1:5) means (1,2,3,4,5). This notation can be used only

in TRACE commands.

* An asterisk means “all”. For example, DISPLAY TRACE (*) means display all traces, and DISPLAY

QUEUE (PAY*) means display all queues whose names begin with PAY.

When you need to use any of these special characters in a field (for example as

part of a description), you must enclose the whole string in single quotation marks.

Building command scripts

You may want to build the MQSeries commands into a script when you use:

v The CSQINP1, CSQINP2, and CSQINPX initialization data sets or the CSQUTIL

batch utility on OS/390

Rules for using commands

MQSeries MQSC Command Reference