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Library Management

Maintaining the JCL library is an important CA Dataquery administrative job function. You use the JCL option on the Administrative Menu to perform the following tasks:

• Viewing a listing of JCL members
• Creating JCL members
• Editing JCL members
• Deleting JCL members
• Adding new copies of JCL members to the JCL library
• Establishing definitions for variables in a JCL procedure member (See Creating a JCL PROC for Online Submission.)

There is no limit to the number of JCL members that you can have in your JCL library. However, you need at least one member, named $$DQJCL, which is required as the system default JCL member.

The Submit panel allows entry of any JCL member name. $$DQJCL is used as a default only if no JCL member is found under the user's name or any of the user's groups. All JCL members are used to submit batch queries or print requests to the system offline batch printer. A JCL member is assigned to a user by naming it with the user's name or to a group of users by naming it with the group name. See Creating or Editing a JCL Member for more information.