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Status Not under consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 6, 2023

Provide possibility to automate fetch of PgmModuleMap.txt

Hi

When using different names for loadmodule and first program it's possible to map those with PgmModuleMap.txt (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/addi/6.1.1?topic=tasks-adding-files-project-folders). To be able to automate create/update of the textfile will easy the burden of keeping it up to date.

I suggest that a change that allows you to use filename of your choice and the ability to map PgmModuleMap to that file (i.e. how IMS-TM works). This will allow us to create the source on z/OS using data in i.e. linkcards and fetch it thru AD-connect with other sources.

Looking the the documentation there is also several other mapping files this improvment would apply to (mq, PSB, etc.)

Feel free to contact me if you want me to elaborate on the use case.

Idea priority Medium