Specifying STARTED class profile names

You can start jobs as well as procedures using the START command. The START command specifies the member name to start and, optionally, the job name to use. See z/OS MVS System Commands for more information on the START command.

For started procedure (job) address spaces, resource names in the STARTED class are of the form member.job, where:

member: The 1 - 8 character name of a member of a partitioned data set that contains the source JCL for the task to be started. The member can be a job or a started procedure.
job: The name identifying the procedure to be started. If the START command does not specify a job name, and the member does not contain a JOB statement to supply a job name, the system uses the member name as the job name when constructing the resource name for STARTED class processing.

For system address spaces, resource names are of the form job.job, or (if your system programmer used the JOBSPACE option of the ATTR parameter of the ASCRE macro to create the address space), member.job. To determine which form to use for a procedure associated with a system address space, refer to the documentation for the application or consult the programmer. For programming details about creating address spaces, see Creating address spaces in z/OS MVS Programming: Extended Addressability Guide.

For each sample START command issued for a started procedure (job) address space, Table 1 shows the resource name that will be used for STARTED class processing, and a list of names for STARTED class profiles that could be defined for each STARTED class resource.

Table 1. Sample profile names for STARTED class resources
START command	STARTED class resource name	STARTED class profile name
`S CICS`	`CICS.CICS`	`CICS.CICS`
		`CICS.*`
		`CICS.**`
`S CICSP`	`CICSP.CICSP`	`CICSP.CICSP`
		`CICSP.*`
		`CICSP.**`
		`CICS.*`
		`CICS*`
`S CICST`	`CICST.CICST`	`CICST.CICST`
		`CICST.*`
		`CICST.**`
		`CICS.*`
		`CICS*`
`S IMS,JOBNAME=IMSPROD`	`IMS.IMSPROD`	`IMS.IMSPROD`
		`IMS.IMSP*`
		`IMS.*`
		`IMS.**`
`S IMS,JOBNAME=IMSTEST`	`IMS.IMSTEST`	`IMS.IMSTEST`
		`IMS.IMST*`
		`IMS.*`
		`IMS.**`