This parameter is used to pass parameters to the agent routine when it begins to execute in the DataAgent address space. Parameters are converted to upper case and concatenated to any parameters provided in the PROCLIB member.

The maximum length of the parameters in bytes is limited only by the space available to the filename suffix.

If PARM is specified, the PROCLIB member must contain the JCL statements as provided by the sample DFMX001 that specifies the DFMINIT parameter so as to run a DFM DataAgent address space initialization routine as the first program in the address space. This causes DFM to pass a supplementary run time parameter list to the DataAgent routine and allows the routine to return an error code and additional reason codes to DFM. The agent parameter list specified is concatenated with DFMINIT before the DataAgent routine invoked.

This parameter is ignored if AGENT is omitted.