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Using the SyntaxSCAN Utility

You may run the SyntaxSCAN utility alone or concurrently with active CA MIM address spaces, and you may reference the same parmlib and members.

For example, suppose you have an active CA MII task for which you have dynamically added a QNAME using the ADDQNAME command. You have decided to make this a permanently managed QNAME, so you have appended the new QNAME definition to the end of the MIMQNAME member. You now want to be sure that the newly specified QNAME definition is syntactically correct.

You could customize the SyntaxSCAN utility startup procedure to point to the same parmlib and members that the CA MII task uses during production. Then, you could execute the SyntaxSCAN utility concurrently with the active CA MII task to verify all parmlib changes. Any syntax errors would be noted by a U0040 abend, as well as by error messages that would indicate the problem.