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Setting Up for Move Cycles

You set up a Move Processing Cycle by making copies of jobs APJJ5310, APJJ5311, and APJJ5320 and changing them. Jobs in each cycle must allocate work data sets (for example, APTMDLO), but those data sets must be different for each cycle. However, the CA‑PanAPT VSAM data sets must be the same data sets for each Move Processing Cycle. You need different sets of jobs for each cycle. See the Daily Processing chapter of this guide for specific requirements.

Establish the scheduling criteria for each cycle. Decide whether the cycle runs periodically or on-demand. If it is run on-demand, determine who initiates a run of the cycle and how it is to be done.

After you have established a cycle, specify that a Move Request is to be processed in that cycle. To process a Move Request in a move cycle, enter the cycle designator for the selected cycle in the Move Type field for this Move Request. Close the Move Request and grant any approvals that can be required.

Job APJJ5310 uses a parameter to determine which Move Processing Cycles to select. Change the parameter to use the cycle designators you have chosen to process during this cycle. APJJ5310 and APJJ5320 also use another parameter, that is part of the data set name, to distinguish the output files produced during each Move Processing Cycle. When you set up a cycle, choose a name that represents the designator for this cycle. This can be as simple as the one-character cycle designator, but it must not begin with a numeric value. See the Batch Component chapter for details on these two parameters.