1.start and stop the sessions and batches 2.process the sesson recovery 3.stop the informatica server 4.check whether informatica server working or not.
it is a program command line utility to communicate with informatica server.
PMCMD performs following tasks 1)start and stop batches and sessions 2)recovery sessions 3)stops the informatica 4)schedule the sessions by shell scripting 5)schedule the sessions by using operating system schedule tools like CRON