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Global options modules

A global options module replaces the Change Accumulation utility internal defaults and contains keyword values you want to use for most change accumulation runs.

To create a global options module, use the ISPF interface or assemble and link the CAPPARMS source module provided on the product distribution tape. BMC recommends that you use ISPF panels to create your global options modules because this method of creating and controlling your options modules is quick and easy. The panels are documented in Using-the-ISPF-interface.

You can create several global options modules, each with a different name, a different set of values, and/or a different purpose. You can create one for your production system and another for your test system. If you have several IMS systems, you can have a global options module—each with a different set of values—for each system. You can create global options modules with the following names:

CAPPARMS

Create a global options module named CAPPARMS to contain your installation’s most used default values.

In this module, change any values that your entire installation uses all the time. For example, since the default for the name that appears on the banner page of output reports is BMC, Inc., you may want to change the name. This could be the only options module you need, if the number of changes you need to make to the default values is small.

CAP@imsi

Create global options modules named CAP@imsi (where imsi reflects different IMSIDs) when you want each of your IMS systems to have different default values.

You might create two CAP@ imsi modules; the first one named CAP@TEST for your test system, and the other named CAP@PROD for your production system.

CAP@xxxx

Create modules named CAP@xxxx (wherexxxx is any four-character identifier) when you want to create global options modules for other purposes, such as testing various Change Accumulation utility features.

Specify that appears on the banner page of output reports on the GLBL control statement to request a global options module named this way.

CAPPARMS sample

The product sample library, included on the product distribution tape, has two members that you use when you want to create a global options module in batch rather than using the ISPF interface: CAPPARMS and CAPASML.

The CAPPARMS member is a prototype for creating the global options module in batch. The keywords in this member match the internal defaults. Modify these keywords as you wish. You can also change the name CAPPARMS to any other valid name (CAP@xxxx). When you complete the modifications, use Assembler Level H to assemble CAPPARMS and then link-edit the CAPPARMS into the product load library.

The CAPASML member assembles and link-edits the CAPPARMS member for you. Modify the CAPASML JCL to reflect the product sample and load libraries at your installation.

The global options module is available for use by any job executed after you link-edit it into the product load library.

 

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