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Status Planned for future release
Workspace zSecure
Categories zSecure Admin
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 28, 2025

zSecure - CO.2 -> enhance generated JCL with customer CKRCARLA

While working with interactive carla scripts via zSecure option CO.2 menu one can either run the script interactive or in batch mode. As it is possible to work with referenced input members in carla like:
I DD=CKRCARLA M=ACCRDBAL
However, the generated JCL does have only CKR.CKRCARLA in the DD Statement:
//CKRCARLA  DD DISP=SHR,DSN=CKR.SCKRCARL
It would be a relief if the generated JCL would add automatically the user Carla lib as well to the generated JCL as it is defined in CO.1 already as DD CKRCARLA. That would result in a generated JCL (if a custom CKRCARLA is defined):
//CKRCARLA  DD DISP=SHR,DSN=CKR.SCKRCARL            
//          DD DISP=SHR,DSN=<user.carla.lib>

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    May 1, 2025

    It would be more useful if the user.carla.lib is concatenated ahead of CKR.SCKRCARL. That way, IBM supplied members can be selectively replaced by user code.