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Step 5: Configure the Product for Initial Testing

In this step, you configure the product for initial testing. You are not using production scheduling data. Initial testing lets you try out features of the new release, verify scheduling/tracking functionality and any user exit changes that you have.

Even if you do not want to do such initial testing, you still must configure the product as discussed in Starting Your Product.

As you follow the steps that are outlined in Starting Your Product, you execute a SYSGEN and build a JCLLIB for the instance. This SYSGEN requires that you specify a logical database name.

When the product writes to the CA Datacom/AD database (DBID=770), it tags each element with the logical database name. That name was specified on the DBPARMS statement. This process lets multiple instances of the product to share use of the database.

In this SYSGEN, consider a name that clearly states you are doing initial product testing, like INITIAL_TEST or V12_TESTING.

In this step, you reconcile the JCLLIB created by this SYSGEN with your r11.3 JCLLIB and change accordingly.