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Creating or Editing a JCL Member

You must build the JCL members for the end users. If you have existing JCL, it is still functional if it meets the criteria discussed in this chapter.

Use your Systems Programmer as the authority when creating user JCL members.

Action

When you want to create a new Batch Online JCL member or edit an existing Batch Online JCL member, begin by selecting the JCL option from the Administrative Menu, or use the JCL statement from the statement line. When the DIRECTORY OF JCL MEMBERS panel appears, press <PF3> CREATE, to create a new member, or <PF4> EDIT, to modify an existing member. CA Dataquery displays the EDITOR panel with the TYPE field specified as JCL. A sample JCL EDITOR panel follows:

JCL EDITOR (DQD10)

=> ------------------------------------------------------------------------DQD10 DATAQUERY: EDITOR ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- NAME: TEMP TYPE: JCL DESCRIPTION: ____________________________________________________________ ....+....1....+....2....+....3....+....4....+....5....+....6....+....7....+. .. ================================ T O P ===================================== 01 02 03 04 05 06 .. =========================== B O T T O M ================================== ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- <PF1> HELP <PF2> RETURN <PF3> NOT USED <PF4> SAVE <PF5> PROC DEF <PF6> DELETE <PF7> BACKWARD <PF8> FORWARD <PF9> UPDATE <PF10> VALIDATE <PF11> RIGHT/LEFT <PF12> NOT USED

Use and operation of the CA Dataquery EDITOR is fully described in the CA Dataquery User Guide.

CA Dataquery does not perform syntax checking on JCL statements. If errors are present in your JCL member, the submitted job does not execute properly. JCL errors are detected and reported by the operating system. Test JCL by submitting sample jobs.