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Permanent Versus Temporary Global Variables

CA OPS/MVS supports the following two basic types of global variables:

Standard or permanent

Standard global variables are non-volatile, so they are saved across system IPLs or CA OPS/MVS starts.

Temporary

Temporary global variables are not saved at these times. The set of temporary global variables is always empty when CA OPS/MVS is first started.

The following are the stems that identify these two types of global variables:

• Standard global variables
  • GLOBAL.
  • GLOBALx. where x is any alphanumeric character (A-Z or 0-9)
• Temporary global variables
  • GLVTEMPx. where x is any alphanumeric character (A-Z or 0-9)
  • GLVEVENT
  • GLVJOBID