Configuring the Discovery Agent for supported tasks

You can configure the agent to send data and run commands. This topic describes the settings you must update when the files sent to the server or command parameters changes.

About this task

The Discovery Agent facilitates the following actions:

  • Sending Infrastructure related configuration items (IdML books) from the Discovery Agent
  • Sending JCL-related data from the Discovery Agent
  • Retrieving data from the Discovery Server by running commands through the Discovery Agent

You can configure the data to be sent or the commands to be run at the agent level. This configuration must be updated as needed—for example, to modify the files sent from the agent to the server or to run a command with new parameters.

Procedure

Modify one of the following files depending on the data that you intend to process:
  • config/FILE_IDML.YML
  • config/FILE_STATIC_JCL.YML
  • config/FILE_ROUTECARD.YML
  • config/FILE_DYNAMIC_JCL.YML

The following parameters are available in the FILE_*.YML files that you modify:

  • sysplex_name─Specifies the sysplex name of the file location.
  • dataset_name─Specifies the data set name file location.
  • member_name─Specifies the name or naming pattern of the dataset members to be processed. You can use the wildcard characters ? (to match a single character) and * (to match zero or more characters). For example, RO*CARD matches all files that start with "RO" and end with "CARD".