You can customize the build procedures designed by your MVS™ system administrator
by overriding the default values used in the steps.
Before
you begin, you should know the names of the steps within these build
procedures and what values need to be modified. Your MVS system administrator
should be able to provide you with this information.
You should perform this customization before you attempt
to build your COBOL or PL/I source code. The following steps can be
used to customize a build step for COBOL source code, but you can
use a similar process to customize a build step for PL/I source code:
- Open the COBOL Settings Properties
page (if your source file is in PL/I, select PL/I Settings instead).
- Open the Procedures and Steps tab.
- Select the procedure you wish to customize in the table
and click Enable procedure. The
procedure must be enabled before you can customize it.
- Click Add step. The
Add a New Step window opens.
- Type the name of the step you want to customize in the Step
Name field. Note: If no step with the
specified name exists in the selected procedure, the build procedure
will return a JCL error when submitted. You may only add steps that
already exist in the procedure designed by your MVS system administrator.
- Specify any options that should be passed to the step in
the Options field.
- Specify any additional JCL in the Additional
JCL field. For example, you might use this
field to override any default values defined in the step by your MVS system administrator.
- Click OK.
The customized build step is added under the selected procedure
in the table.
You can then modify the step definition by selecting it and
clicking on Edit step. You can also change
the order in which steps are executed by selecting a step and clicking
on the Up and Down buttons.