Connect:Direct®
for z/OS® has
a sample Process library that contains Process statement models. You
can use these models as templates for building IBM® Connect:Direct Processes.
About this task
There are two types of the Process statement models in
the Process library:
- Commented files have a file name preceded by the at sign (@).
- Files without comments have a file name preceded by a pound sign
(#).
To create a Process from a Process model,
Procedure
- Use either the Connect:Direct
for z/OS Interactive
User Interface (IUI) or the Interactive System Productivity Facility
(ISPF) EDIT facility.
- Access the Process definition screen (DF on the Connect:Direct
for z/OS Primary
Option Menu), and specify a new PDS member.
- Press ENTER.
- Type COPY on the command line at
the top of the blank member.
- Press ENTER. An ISPF Edit-Copy screen
is displayed.
- In the DATA SET NAME field, type
the name of the Process library and the member name of the model you
want copied into your new member, and press ENTER.
For
example, you build your Process by first including the PROCESS statement.
If you specify @PROCESS with the Process library, the commented IBM Connect:Direct PROCESS
statement model is copied into the member. (Use #PROCESS if you do
not want to include the comments in your Process.)
The PROCESS
statement model is copied into your new member.
- To add additional statement models, type a over
the 0 (zero) in the number column of the last line of the member and
repeat steps 4 thorugh 6.
Each specified IBM Connect:Direct statement
model is copied into the member following the PROCESS statement.
- Continue adding statement models until your Process is
complete.
- Edit the statements:
- Replace underscores with the appropriate parameter values.
- Provide an appropriate Process name in the PROCESS statement.
- Delete any lines that are not applicable.
- Continuation marks are necessary on all but the last line of each
statement model.
- Delete any unwanted Comment lines.
- Save the Process to the PDS member. You can now submit
it from the Submit panels in the IUI. See the IBM Sterling Connect:Direct
for z/OS User Guide for instructions on executing Processes.