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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM Developer for z/OS
Categories z/OS Application Development
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 20, 2010

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Generate JCL based on the subsystem version

Similar to the capability to specify which CICS Transaction Server version is used for syntax checking, use this information to generate the appropriate steplib, etc. for the compilation, etc.
This capability should not be restricted to the CICS Transaction Server, but should include compiler versions, DB2 versions, etc.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    |     Sep 14, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Programming Languages
    Product - Developer for System z

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Rational
    Product family - Design & development
    Product - Developer for System z

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     May 18, 2010

    This, however, leads to massive PG inflation in installations such as ours that have multiple versions of subsystems, compilers, etc. It would be a very simple matter to define a "global" SET variable that could be passed to the JCL procedures.

  • Guest
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    |     May 11, 2010

    The CICS version is used to generate the right set of options to be able to do local syntax check and also to trigger the right level of CICS TX series - for DB2 - there is no equivalent function or need - also the DB2 version information is in the PROCs which are not available to RDz hence our recommendation is to create customized build procedures for each different combination of compiler, DB2, etc and then specify the desired build procedure in the associated property group. See "Procedures shipped with Rational Developer for System z" in the RDz product help.

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