Customization setup

Developer for z/OS® contains several sample configuration files and sample JCL. To avoid overwriting your customizations when applying maintenance, copy all of these members and z/OS UNIX files to a different location, and customize the copy.

The Developer for z/OS FMIDs are shared by multiple IBM products, so it is possible you see configurable files, libraries, or directories that are not applicable to your setup. When in doubt, refer back to this document, as it contains all information on the parts that do apply to your setup.

To create customizable copies of configuration files and configuration JCL, and to create required z/OS UNIX directories, customize and submit the sample FELSETUP member in the FEL.SFELSAMP data set. The required customization steps are described within the member.

This job performs the following tasks:
  • Create FEL.#CUST.PARMLIB and populate it with sample configuration files.
  • Create FEL.#CUST.PROCLIB and populate it with sample SYS1.PROCLIB members.
  • Create FEL.#CUST.JCL and populate it with sample configuration JCL.
  • Create FEL.#CUST.CNTL and populate it with sample server startup scripts.
  • Create FEL.#CUST.ASM and populate it with sample assembler source code.
  • Create FEL.#CUST.SQL and populate it with sample SQL command files.
  • Populate the z/OS Explorer configuration directory, /etc/zexpl/* with sample configuration files.
Notes:
  • The customization steps described here, including the FELSETUP tool, assume that the configuration of z/OS Explorer has already been completed.
  • The configuration steps in this publication use the member and file locations created by the FELSETUP job, unless noted otherwise. The original samples, which should not be updated, are in FEL.SFELSAMP and /usr/lpp/IBM/zee/samples/.
  • For more details on which sample members are copied to which data set, and for more details on which directories are created, their permission bitmask, and where the various sample files are copied to, see the comments in FEL.SFELSAMP(FELSETUP).
  • To aid in migrating an existing setup, the comments in FEL.SFELSAMP(FELSETUP) also document the changes between different versions of Developer for z/OS.