Special Usage Considerations › Pre-Validation Variable Substitution

Pre-Validation Variable Substitution

Pre-Validation Variable Substitution enables you to change data strings present in the JCL from one value to another on a temporary basis. This conversion occurs before the JCL is validated by CA JCLCheck.

Immediately after each input JCL and/or inline control statement has been read, the CHANGE runtime option causes the input line to be examined against a user-defined conversion table that contains one or more 'from' and 'to' data strings, and if a match is found, converts the 'from' data string to the 'to' data string. This examination and conversion may occur multiple times on each input line before JCL validation takes place.

This option is available when running CA JCLCheck in batch, ISPF, EDCHEK, and ChekPlex.

All CA JCLCheck reports contain only the post-converted JCL lines and control statements.