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Creating a user POF

To define or modify the values in your ISPF profile and a user POF, use the Options panels of the JCL Generation component.

Use the Product Options File (POF) Functions panel to create a user POF or update the values in your ISPF profile. The panel displays the data set name of the initial POF. The panel also displays the value of the POFDATE parameter in the initial POF that was last used to update the ISPF profile.

To create a user POF

  1. Use the following menu selections to display the JCL Generation Product Options File (POF) Functions panel:

    From this menu

    Select this item and press Enter

    ALTER or BMC AMI Change Manager for Db2 Main Menu

    Options

    JCL Generation Main Menu

    Product Option File (POF) Functions

    --------------JCL GENERATION PRODUCT OPTIONS FILE (POF) FUNCTIONS ------------
    COMMAND ===>                                                                  
                                                                                 
    Type data and press Enter. Press PF3 or END to return to the main panel.      
                                                                                 
    Initial POF name:                                                             
         AUS.DOPSEC.CNTL(JX10QBDC)                                                 
         Initial POF name Different from previous?  N                              
         BROWSE Initial POF . . . . . . . . . . N (Y/N)                            
         MSGCLASS for POF Diagnostic Messages . X                                  
                                                                                 
    POFDATE value used for initial POF Refresh Compare:  2011/02/09 08:15:23
                                                                                 
    Type User POF Name below:                                                     
     . . AUS.DOPSEC.CNTL(JX10QBAC)                                                 
         BROWSE, EDIT, VALIDATE User POF. . . . . . . . . . . N (B/E/V/N)          
         RESET Profile Variables from User POF that are                            
                       marked with Refresh ',(R)' . . . . . . N (Y/N)              
         RESET All Profile Variables from User POF. . . . . . N (Y/N)              
         WRITE User POF data set from Profile Variables . . . N (Y/N)              
                   -- Edit/Validate will update the User POFDATE --

  2. In the Type User POF Name below field, replace the displayed name (the initial POF) with the name of the data set for a user POF.The name can be either an existing sequential, 80-column data set or a member of a PDS.

    Note

    Consider creating a user POF to set the options for processing a worklist in parallel.

  3. In the WRITE User POF data set from Profile Variables field, type Y to write the ISPF variable values (located in the ISPF profile) to the user POF.
  4. Press Enter to create the user POF.

Related topic

Setting-options

 

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