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Hello, All,
Back in August, I started this series of Tuesday's Tips about CA 7 panel input, starting with the CA 7 CPU JOB DEFINITION (DB.1) screen. Last week I continued on to the DB.2 screen and had a reply sent to me. I was very pleased to see that someone was reading the posts (I'm not talking to a void, yah!). In the correspondence, my 'reader' ask me to include batch type input to these screens as most of her updates were in batch. What a great request--really constructive! So in order to be 'agile' (and I TOTALLY agree), I am interrupting the schedule screen information to 'finish' the DB.1 screen--with the BTI (or CCI) input format to accomplish entering of data in batch rather than only online.
During the install or upgrade of CA 7, members are written to JCLLIB--some of which are used in testing the upgrade. One member within this library, N220DECK contains BTI input for deleting and adding data to the CA 7 database. You can also run DataBase Transportability (see the CA 7 Database Maintenance Guide for documentation on DBT) to produce BTI input after the process is complete. This part of the Tuesday Tip series is designed to give a bit more information and some 'tips and tricks' where applicable. The following is BTI type input with the explanation of what is accomplished:
Accessing the DB.1 screen and doing a PURGE type function from that screen to delete the specified job (JOBA):
[font=Courier New]JOB
PURGE,JOBA[font]
Adding a job (JOBA) with other inputs on the DB.1 screen:
[font=Courier New]JOB
ADD,JOBA,SYSTEM=MYSYSTEM,,JCLID=200,JOBNET=MYJNET,RELOAD=X[font]
Updating an existing job (JOBA) on the DB.1 screen:
[font=Courier New]JOB
UPD,JOBA,ARFSET=MYARF,CONDCODE=8,RO=LE[font]
Updating an existing job (JOBA) to remove a value (blank it out) on the DB.1 screen (note that the BTI input cannot end with blanks, therefore the 'blanked' out input has to have another field update after it--in this case I know the job should be executable so I use EXEC=Y:
[font=Courier New]JOB
UPD,JOBA,ARFSET= ,EXEC=Y[font]
Once, again, thanks for the input, kind reader--to all, please feel free to let me know your thought on the series.
See ya next Tuesday!
Marysue