FDRCONVT JCL Requirements

STEPLIB or JOBLIB DD statement

If FDR is not in the system link list (LNKLST), specifies the program library in which FDRCONVT resides. The library must be APF authorized.

EXEC statement

Specifies the program name (PGM=FDRCONVT), region requirement (REGION=1M or more), and optional PARM= operand.

If a PARM field is specified, FDRCONVT uses data specified as the first control statement, which must be a valid CONVERTV or SIMULATE statement. For example,

//FDRCONVT EXEC PGM=FDRCONVT,PARM=’CONVERTV VOL=ABC123’

If FDRCONVT is invoked from a user program, Register 1 must follow IBM's convention for passing data from the PARM field.

SYSIN DD statement

Specifies the control statements data set. Usually a SYSIN data set. This is a required DD statement unless a control statement is specified in the PARM field of the EXEC statement.

SYSPRINT DD statement

Specifies the output message data set. Normally a SYSOUT data set. This is a required DD statement.

SYSUDUMP DD statement

Specifies the abend dump data set. Usually specifies a SYSOUT data set. Although not required, we strongly urge you to always include this DD statement, so that we can help you diagnose error conditions. If you have a debugging aid product on your system that would prevent the desired dump, please add the appropriate one of these statements to the JCL so that a fully-formatted dump is produced.

//ABNLDUMP DD DUMMY   Print normal IBM dump in addition to the Abend-AID Report
//CAOESTOP DD DUMMY   Turn off CA OPT II & CA SYMDUMP
//DMBENAN DD DUMMY   Turn off DumpMaster
//ESPYIBM DD DUMMY   Turn off Eye-Spy
//IDIOFF   DD DUMMY   Turn off IBM Fault Analyzer

Important

STEPCAT DD statements are prohibited. FDRCONVT abends if a STEPCAT DD statement is encountered. The INCAT parameter can be used to specify catalogs to be searched for non-VSAM data sets cataloged outside the standard order of search.