Set FDR Global Options

New installations

You will want to display each of the option panels that apply to the FDR components you are installing to review and set options appropriately. The option descriptions in this space are brief, but each ISPF panel has HELP that gives more details on each option; press PF1 to see the HELP.

Existing installations

We recommend that you use the COPY function of these dialogs to copy the options from your previous FDR load library to the new one, to insure that all options are set the same as before. You may wish to review the option panels afterwards to be sure that any new options and options for new FDR components are properly set.

Many options that affect the FDR system may be changed permanently. Most such options are kept in a load module called FDROPT, in the FDR program library. Additional options for FDRREORG are stored in load module FDRREOOP. FDREPORT uses some options from FDROPT, but options unique to FDREPORT are stored in another options module (see CHANGE= in FDREPORT-DEFAULT-Statement for information on permanently changing FDREPORT options). Many of these options affect the defaults for various operands on FDR control statements and can be overridden at execution time; others may be changed only in FDROPT and cannot be overridden.

There are also some tables, such as the ABR lists, the COMPAKTOR Unmovable Table, and the FDRREORG NOREORG table, which are also stored as load modules in the FDR program library.

There are two ways of modifying these options and tables. The FDR ISPF dialogs may be used to set all options and tables. This is the preferred way, since all options are displayed with online help to describe them. If you have not installed the dialogs or prefer not to use them, the options and tables may be set with program FDRZAPOP, the Global Option Change facility, described in Running-FDRZAPOP. Additionally, the FDRREORG options table and NOREORG table may be set with program FDRREOZO, described in Options-and-Defaults.

Panel A.I – FDR Installation Options Menu

To enter the FDR dialog to display and set options in FDROPT, select option “4” (SETOPT) in the FDR Installation Options Menu, as illustrated in the below figure:

 FDR Installation Menu – Panel A.I

Dynamically installed options

If the Operating System exits are in use (as described in Dynamic-Installation-of-the-FDR-Exits), the FDRSTART program loads a copy of the FDROPT option module into common memory (CSA). This in-memory copy of FDROPT is used by the exits themselves and by all jobs and TSO users using FDR programs unless they have a STEPLIB or JOBLIB pointing to an APF-authorized program library containing an FDROPT module. This allows you to give certain users special sets of FDR options.

Option 4A on the above menu is used to display (but not modify) the options in effect in that in-memory module. The panels displayed by option 4A are identical to those described in the following sections except that the fields are not modifiable.

FDR Global Options

The FDR Global Options (module FDROPT) contains installation options for security features, user exits, control statement defaults, and the rest. Options are organized by option type on the Global Options Primary Menu; each option on this panel takes you to another panel where you may display and modify the actual options.

Panel A.I.4 – Set FDR Global Options

The name of the FDR program library used during installation is displayed. If necessary, correct that library name; specify the volume serial of the library if it is not cataloged.

Set FDR Global Options – Panel A.I.4

These values are saved in your ISPF profile so that you do not need to reenter them in the future. The subsequent panels display the options currently in effect in the FDROPT module in that library, and update that library when the options are saved.

Set option commands

As shown, several special commands are available on this panel:

SAVE

Updates the FDROPT module in the specified program library. No changes are made to the library until “SAVE” is entered, so you may freely switch between option panels and change options until you are satisfied.

CANCEL

Exits to the previous menu and discards all options changed since the last “SAVE” command.

REFRESH

Can be used to dynamically refresh the in-memory copy of FDROPT (see Dynamically Installed Options) or to install the FDROperating System exits if not already active. It can also refresh the LLA copy of FDR tables and lists after they are updated.

COPY

Is used to copy options and tables from a previous release of  FDR(Copy FDR Global Options Panel).

AUDIT

Displays the values and descriptions of all options that are not currently set to the BMC default, that is, an audit of all changed options.

RESET

Resets all options to the default values distributed by BMC. BMC suggests you use AUDIT before using “RESET” to be sure that you can safely reset all non-default options.

“SAVE” and “CANCEL” can be used on any of the option panels. Other commands are only valid on this panel. If an option value is changed since the last “SAVE” command and you attempt to exit from this panel, you are prompted to “SAVE” or “CANCEL” the changes before exiting.

New installations:

BMC suggests that new installations should display each option panel and review the options on them. However, the FDR Global Options that are especially important for new installations are:

For all installations:

Security Options (panel A.I.4.1, Security-Options)

For ABR installations:

ABR Data Set Names (panel A.I.4.5, ABR-Options).

If you have a tape management system of any kind set the TMS option (panel A.I.4.4, TMS in ABR-Options).

If you have an Automated Tape Library (ATL) or Virtual Tape System (VTS), you may need to set the DYNDEALC option (panel A.I.4.4, DYNDEALC in ABR-Options).

Existing installations:

The COPY command on the FDR Global Options panel (A.I.4) should be used to copy the option values set in a previous version of FDR by reading the FDROPT, FDRREOOP, and F$REPOPT modules from the previous load library and setting the equivalent options in the new FDROPT, FDRREOOP, and F$REPOPT modules. At the same time, you can also copy the ABR Restore Allocation List, the ABR Protect Lists, the COMPAKTOR Unmovable Table, and the FDRREORG NOREORG Table, as illustrated in the following figure.

Alternately, the FDREPORT COPY command (FDREPORT-COPY-Statement can be used to copy the FDREPORT option values set in the previous version of FDREPORT by reading the F$REPOPT module from the previous load library and setting the equivalent options in the new F$REPOPT.

However, you can use IEBCOPY or ISPF COPY to copy the table and list modules from a previous version of FDR. In fact, you must do so if you have expanded any of those table and list modules so that the expanded size is retained in the new release.

Copy FDR Global Options Panel

Copy FDR Global Options

Enter the data set name (and optional volume serial) of the FDR program library containing the previous version of FDR. Only those options that are not set to the BMC default in effect for that version are copied; this way, if the BMC default for an option is changed in the new version, the new default is not overridden with the old default. The option values copied are immediately saved in the “TO” program library; no “SAVE” command is required.

To copy one or more of the lists and tables at the same time, enter “YES” next to each selected list and table. The copied tables and lists are immediately saved in the “TO” program library.