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Generate the DEFAULT List

The sections that follow describe the commands you use to tailor and manipulate lists of transient data queue destination names. In addition to the lists you generate by using the COF DEFINE command, the CICS XTDOUT exit generates a DEFAULT list.

Once the XTDOUT exit is installed in a CICS region, the next transient data record that is written causes the exit to create a transient data queue name list for each active CA OPS/MVS subsystem that has its INITAOF and CICSAOF parameters set to YES.

If no predefined name list with a matching job name is found, then the DEFAULT list is used. JOBNAME(DEFAULT) is reserved for this purpose.

You can use any of the ADDRESS OPSCTL COF commands to manipulate the DEFAULT list, but only if you explicitly identify it by specifying DEFAULT as the value for the JOBNAME keyword for the command.

Note: The DEFAULT list is never selected if you use a wildcard suffix when you specify JOBNAME.

After a CICS region has built its destination name list by copying the DEFAULT list, the list is identified by the CICS job name.

If the DEFAULT list is not defined in advance, CICS regions build empty destination name lists, and no messages are sent to the AOF. You can use the COF ACTIVATE command to add destination names to the empty list. Alternatively, use the COF DEFINE command to build the DEFAULT list.

If you use the COF DELETE command to remove the current list that is associated with a particular CICS region, the next transient data write request from that region builds a new list from the now defined DEFAULT list.