You can submit files, or a collection of files defined by a filter, to the mainframe internal reader for job execution. You may optionally specify a control file containing one or more commands and allow MFDAS to run them as a batch. To do this, place the commands in a control file of any name, without the preceding MFDAS parameter, then run MFDAS with the parameter @filename, where filename is the name of the control file. The format of the submit command is:
The FILENAME parameter can specify a specific workstation file name, or can included special filter characters to allow multiple submits to occur based on the special filter characters that you specify. These special filter characters are:
Example export commands are shown below.
MFDAS SUBMIT {filename|filter}
You can find out the status of all of your JOBS my issuing the STATUS command to the command line interface. The format of the status command is:
MFDAS STATUS