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Status Future consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 15, 2022

Enhance mvscmd and mvscmdauth to be able to work with Datasets allocated using SUBSYS Parameter

As part of our CI/CD Pipeline we want to copy load modules from one System of a SYSPLEX (our BUILD System) to another System on a foreign SYSPLEX (our Test System).
In our “old” JCL based build system we do use JCL to call a Software called CSM (Cross Sysplex Manager) by Hostsystems GmbH (https://hostsystems.de/de/csm.htm) to copy the load module from our Build SYSPLEX to the Test SYSPLEX. Here is the JCL to do that:

//*--------------------------------------------------------------------
//*- COPY ELEMENTS TO CPX(CPXIPL) SYS(IPLY) TARGET DS -
//*-----------------------------------------------------
//CPYIPLY EXEC PGM=CSMUTIL,
// PARM='CSM,COPYREPLACE'
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSIN DD DUMMY
//SYSUT1 DD DISP=SHR,DSN=<loadlib(lmod)>,
// UNIT=SYSDA
//SYSUT2 DD DISP=SHR,DSN=<LOADLIB(LMOD)>,
// SUBSYS=(CSM,'SYSTEM=CPXIPL'),
// UNIT=SYSDA,VOL=SER=<volser> *IPLRES*
//*

The new build system is USS based and uses the make utility to build the software. The idea was to write a IBM Enterprise Python Script with the ZOAU Python API or a bash shell script with mvscmdauth command to be called from a rule inside the makefile. As you can see from the JCL above, SYSUT2 DD uses the SUBSYS= JCL Keyword. Unfortunately there is no corresponding parameter for the commands mvscmd/mvscmdauth nor a corresponding Attribute in class zoautil_py.types.DataDefinition(name).

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    Apr 20, 2023

    CA-Librarian datasets can be accessed as a pseudo-PDS with SUBSYS=LAM, so this could be a useful feature

  • Guest
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    Apr 3, 2022

    very interesting. I personally haven’t used the subsys parameter before. If others would find this useful too please vote! As a less ideal alternative for now, you could use JCL for that one step and drive it from our JES services. I agree this isn’t ideal. There are some samples that show how to do this at our community: https://github.com/IBM/zoau