Report Disposition

At this point in processing, the report that was generated is still in a temporary data set. The purpose of this screen is to allow you to perform several options, depending on the results of the report. When you have completed processing on this panel, press <END> to return to the primary options panel. The following illustration is a sample Report Disposition panel:

Option 1 - SUBMIT JOB TO PRINT. This option submits a batch job to print the report that was just produced. Before selecting this option, be sure the job card information at the bottom of the panel is correct. The other function of the batch job is to delete the temporary report data set. To be sure that you have completed processing of the report, CA Disk will cause the temporary data set to be locked out until you leave the report disposition panel. Because of this, the batch job will not begin executing until you return to the reports primary options panel.
Option 2 - REBROWSE THE REPORT. Use this option to enter browse again to review the report. This option is valid even if you already submitted the job to print.
Option 3 - SAVE REPORT TO PERMANENT data set. If for some reason you would like to save the report to a permanent data set, select this option. You will be directed to another panel where you can enter the permanent data set's name.
Option 4 - SAVE DSCL COMMAND STREAM TO PERMANENT data set. Remember those DSCL commands that were shown on the panel to confirm the report request? Those commands can reproduce the same results for reports in either the online or batch environment. If the report you just produced will be required again in the future, it can benefit you to save the commands in a permanent data set, particularly if you had a lot of complex criteria commands specified. This option would also be handy if you need to run the same report again with slight changes in the selection criteria. In this case you would save the commands and then return back to the primary options menu. From there you would select "expert" mode and you can merely modify the previous commands in ISPF edit mode. This would save a lot of energy and also prevent possible errors when respecifying all of the panel information again. If you want to submit the commands in a batch job, execute the procedure CA Disk and point the SYSIN dd card to the permanent data set.
Option 5 - BUILD UTILITY INPUT COMMANDS FROM SAVED data set NAMES. This is a handy utility for generating utility commands -- either for CA Disk or some other utility -- based upon the data set names shown in the report. For instance, if you wanted to run the Move/Copy function on only a subset of the data sets on a volume, you can use the selection capability to limit the data sets to the proper subset. Then you would use this option to generate COPY commands for all of the data sets, which can subsequently be fed into a batch Move/Copy run. Note that to use this option you must have replied yes to the SAVE DSNAMES FOR LATER PROCESSING prompt on the primary options menu of this facility. On the next page you can see the panel that is displayed if you select this option.