Creating and submitting JCL

When all questions have been answered regarding how to process a conversion project, IMS HALDB Toolkit creates JCL and presents an ISPF panel for you to submit it.

When the IMS management of ACBs is enabled, //IMS DD is not generated.

About this task

Figure 1. ISPF panel for submitting conversion JCL


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000001 //XXJOB  JOB 11,xx,CLASS=A,MSGCLASS=X
000002 //*
000003 //*
000004 //*
000005 //DEL    EXEC PGM=IDCAMS
000006 //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
000007 //SYSIN    DD *
000008  DELETE  IMSDB.UNLOAD.HDO2
000009  SET  MAXCC=0
000010 /*
000011 //UNLOAD EXEC PGM=IHCHALDB,
000012 //            COND=(4,LE),
000013 //            REGION=60M
000014 //STEPLIB  DD DISP=SHR,DSN=your.SIHCLOAD
000015 //         DD DISP=SHR,DSN=your.SDFSRESL
000016 //DFSRESLB DD DISP=SHR,DSN=your.SDFSRESL
000017 //IMS      DD DISP=SHR,DSN=your.DBDLIB
000018 //RECON1   DD DISP=SHR,DSN=your.RECON1
000019 //RECON2   DD DISP=SHR,DSN=your.RECON2
000020 //RECON3   DD DISP=SHR,DSN=your.RECON3
000021 //HDO201   DD DISP=SHR,DSN=IMSDB.HDO2.HDO201
000022 //SIO2101  DD DISP=SHR,DSN=IMSDB.SIO21.SIO2101
000023 //SIO2301  DD DISP=SHR,DSN=IMSDB.SIO23.SIO2301
000024 //SIO2201  DD DISP=SHR,DSN=IMSDB.SIO22.SIO2201
000025 //SIO2401  DD DISP=SHR,DSN=IMSDB.SIO24.SIO2401
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When the JCL processes successfully, an indicator displays to confirm that the batch job has completed.

A phase can have more than one batch job; all the jobs must be completed before the next phase begins.