Rational Developer for System z


Submit JCL with Dynamic Variable Substitution

This tutorial describes how to use Menu Manager and the Rational® Developer for System z® JCL substitution mechanism to submit JCL with dynamic variable substitution.
Suppose that you have multiple programs of the same type, for example, COBOL with CICS® and DB2®. These programs need to use the same JCL to compile and link-edit them. Instead of creating a separate JCL for each of these programs and then having to modify that JCL each time a different program needs to be compiled, you can use Rational Developer for System z to create an action that compiles each program using the same JCL. You need to edit the JCL only once to mark the parameters that need to be overridden for each compilation.

With Rational Developer for System z you can dynamically link resources to commands and invoke those commands with different parameters. You can use these abilities to do the following tasks:

This tutorial describes how to use these Rational Developer for System z capabilities.

Before you complete the lessons described in this tutorial, you need to do the following:
  1. Connect to a remote system.
  2. Create a z/OS® project and subproject in the z/OS Projects view.
  3. Add data sets to the subproject that you can submit for compiling and link-editing. You will use these data sets to test your new action.

Learning objectives

Using this tutorial, you will learn how to do the following tasks:

Time required

This tutorial should take approximately 60 minutes to finish. If you explore other concepts related to this tutorial, it could take longer to complete.

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