diff --git a/src/misc/Makefile b/src/misc/Makefile
index 776bc89c7..f7cfa44e8 100644
--- a/src/misc/Makefile
+++ b/src/misc/Makefile
@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
 #*************************************************************************
-# Copyright (c) 2002 The University of Chicago, as Operator of Argonne
+# Copyright (c) 2009 UChicago Argonne LLC, as Operator of Argonne
 #     National Laboratory.
 # Copyright (c) 2002 The Regents of the University of California, as
 #     Operator of Los Alamos National Laboratory.
-# EPICS BASE Versions 3.13.7
-# and higher are distributed subject to a Software License Agreement found
+# EPICS BASE is distributed subject to a Software License Agreement found
 # in file LICENSE that is included with this distribution. 
 #*************************************************************************
 
@@ -13,6 +12,7 @@ include $(TOP)/configure/CONFIG
 
 DBD += base.dbd
 DBD += system.dbd
+DBD += dlload.dbd
 
 INC += epicsRelease.h
 INC += iocInit.h
@@ -23,8 +23,10 @@ LIB_SRCS += epicsRelease.c
 LIB_SRCS += iocInit.c
 LIB_SRCS += asSubRecordFunctions.c
 LIB_SRCS += miscIocRegister.c
+LIB_SRCS += dlload.c
 LIB_SRCS += iocshRegisterCommon.c
 
+
 LIBRARY_IOC = miscIoc
 
 miscIoc_RCS = miscIoc.rc
diff --git a/src/misc/dlload.c b/src/misc/dlload.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5b0591d5f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/misc/dlload.c
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+/*************************************************************************\
+* Copyright (c) 2009 UChicago Argonne LLC, as Operator of Argonne
+*     National Laboratory.
+* EPICS BASE is distributed subject to a Software License Agreement found
+* in file LICENSE that is included with this distribution. 
+\*************************************************************************/
+
+#include "epicsFindSymbol.h"
+#include "iocsh.h"
+#include "epicsExport.h"
+
+static const iocshArg dlloadArg0 = { "path/library.so", iocshArgString};
+static const iocshArg * const dlloadArgs[] = {&dlloadArg0};
+static const iocshFuncDef dlloadFuncDef = {"dlload", 1, dlloadArgs};
+static void dlloadCallFunc(const iocshArgBuf *args)
+{
+    if (!epicsLoadLibrary(args[0].sval)) {
+        printf("epicsLoadLibrary failed: %s\n", epicsLoadError());
+    }
+}
+
+static void dlloadRegistar(void) {
+    iocshRegister(&dlloadFuncDef, dlloadCallFunc);
+}
+epicsExportRegistrar(dlloadRegistar);
diff --git a/src/misc/dlload.dbd b/src/misc/dlload.dbd
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..740ebbbba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/misc/dlload.dbd
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# Including this DBD file adds the 'dlload' command to the IOC shell.
+
+registrar(dlloadRegistar)