Using Download

If you use Download to automate the data loading process, then you might need to provide a user-written program to process the files transmitted by Download before they can be processed by the ARSLOAD program. You must provide a user-written program if the file name does not contain information that can be used to identify the application group to load.

For example, suppose that you use a report distribution system to place the output of your application programs on the spool data set. Download selects the output and transmits the data to a Content Manager OnDemand server. However, after the output has been processed by the report distribution system, the resulting file name on the spool data set can no longer be associated with the application program that generated the output. Therefore, the ARSLOAD program cannot use the file name to determine the application group to load. (And because the file name does not contain information that can be use used to identify the application group and application to load, you cannot run the ARSLOAD program with the -A and -G parameters.) You must find some other way to identify the application group and application to load.

Download provides a user exit (APSUX15) that allows you to provide additional job information to Content Manager OnDemand. Download includes the additional job information in the data stream that is transmitted from the spool data set to the server. See PSF for z/OS: Download for z/OS for detailed information about Download, the user exit, and the additional job information that can be included in the data that is transmitted to the server.

On the Content Manager OnDemand server, the ARSJESD program provides the -x parameter so that you can run a user-written program to process the additional job information after Download successfully transmits a file to the server. See the ARSJESD program reference in IBM Content Manager OnDemand for Multiplatforms: Administration Guide for information about using the -x parameter.