Setting preferences for JCL templates

The JCL Editor supports the use of templates to promote efficiency and consistency in creating commonly and frequently used JCL. The Templates preference allows for the creating, editing, removing, importing, and exporting of JCL templates. A default set of templates is provided with the product.

Before you begin

Code templates are among the Eclipse preferences that can be exported to a remote system and distributed to clients by using the push-to-client feature. Before you create or edit code templates, be sure that you know which templates are local (created on your workstation) and which are remote (delivered to your workstation by using push-to-client). If you edit a remote template but do not give it a unique name, your edits might be overwritten when you connect to the remote system.

For more information about how the push-to-client feature merges local and remote templates, see Code templates in a push-to-client environment.

Procedure

  1. Click Window (on Windows) or IBM Developer for z Systems (on macOS) > Preferences > JCL.
  2. Click Templates.
    Template table
    The table list templates by name and associated context. It also contains a brief description. The Context indicates the section of a source file in which the template is valid. The check box beside the template name indicates whether the template is enabled and available for use.
    Preview
    Select a template in the table to see the content of the template.
  3. Click Restore Defaults to remove any changes that you made and restore the list to the original defaults.