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Generating XML Files

Before XML files can be produced by the CA JARS report writer, the IBM XML Toolkit for z/OS must be installed on the system where CA JARS is run. The XML Toolkit is a free download from IBM and can be installed with or without SMP/E. CA JARS will work with the Toolkit no matter which way it is installed. The only requirement is that the Toolkit must either be in the system linklist, or the load library from the Toolkit must be concatenated to the STEPLIB DD.

To generate XML files using the CA JARS report writer, option 3 must be coded in position 73 of the SORT statement used in a report. If this is set, columns 65-70 are redefined to have the following meaning:

65-66

ddname suffix for the XML report data document

67-68

ddname suffix for the XML schema

69-70

codepage indicator

Positions 71-72 are ignored by the XML writer process. These bytes can be set to anything, but since they are not used, they should be set to spaces.