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Status Under review
Workspace IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 12, 2024

RELATED IDEAS

Enhance the Configuration Manager validation step to warn about undefined symbolics

With RTE_SYSV_SYSVAR_FLAG=Y, when a (user or system) symbolic is used in a &SYSNAME. configuration, and that symbolic is not defined in either the VAR$&SYSNAME. or as a system symbolic. Examples would be:

RTE_TCP_PORT_NUM "&NONE_EXIST_SYMBOL."

or

GBL_USS_TKANJAR_PATH "&NONE_EXIST_SYMBOL."

The Configuration Manager GENERATE OPTION VALIDATE step will not flag these symbolics as undefined/missing (nor does the GENERATE OPTION PREPARE). Only the CM GENERATE step will fail (with RC=08). It would be good if the GENERATE OPTION VALIDATE, would flag (with a warning) any missing symbolics and return a condition code of 04? This allows a batch job to stopped or continue based on the GENERATE OPTION VALIDATE condition code, i.e. for DEPLOY one may choose to ignore a condition code of 4, but otherwise one may want to validate that these missing symbolics are indeed acceptable.

Idea priority Medium

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