Customizing the JCL skeleton

How to edit the JCL skeleton.

Select option 5 from the CICS VR main menu to start an ISPF/PDF edit of the JCL skeleton, as shown. An editor is displayed so that you can edit the CICS VR JCL skeleton information to conform to the standards in your organization. For more information about customizing the JCL skeleton, see CICS VR Implementation Guide and ReferenceEditing the CICS VR JCL skeleton.

Figure 1. JCL skeleton
)CM    @BANNER_START                           01
)CM    Licensed Materials - Property of IBM
)CM
)CM    5655-GY1              DWWUJOB
)CM
)CM    (C) Copyright IBM Corp. 2005, 2014
)CM    (C) Copyright HCL Technologies Ltd. 2025
)CM
)CM    @BANNER_END
)CM  $L0= CVR410  410 050909 ......... Changed
)CM  $L1= CVR430  430 080109 ......... Changed
)CM       R71977  520 130920 ......... Customization
)CM  $CC= CVR610  610 250501 SRIKHAR: Added HCL Copyright
)CM  $CC= CVR630  630 250901 KRISHNA: Updated the status version
)CM  ***********************************************************
)CM
)CM   Add the JOB statement to meet your system requirements.
)CM
)CM   Do not remove the &CJOBCHAR variable in the JOB name. 
)CM 
)CM   You must use double ampersands (&&) to produce a character 
)CM   string starting with an ampersand (&) in a generated job. 
)CM   For example: NOTIFY=&&SYSUID 
)CM 
)CM   Set symbolic parameters according your requirements: 
)CM    HLQ  - high level qualifier for CICS VR libraries 
)CM    CICSEXCI - CICS SDFHEXCI data set name 
)CM 
)CM   Uncomment STEPLIB DD if CICS VR libraries are not specified 
)CM   in LNKLST. 
)CM   Note: For running IVP, DWWEXLD data set must be specified 
)CM   in STEPLIB. 
)CM  *********************************************************** 
)CM 
)SET HLQ = DWW.V630 
)SET CICSEXCI = CTS510.CICS680.SDFHEXCI 
//TSTGFS&CJOBCHAR JOB (ACCOUNT),MSGLEVEL=(1,1),NOTIFY=&&SYSUID, 
//             MSGCLASS=X,CLASS=A,REGION=4M 
)SEL &CUTIL NE BACKUP 
//DWW      PROC 
//&CUTIL   EXEC PGM=&CPROG,COND=(8,LE) 
//*STEPLIB  DD DSN=&HLQ..SDWWLOAD,DISP=SHR 
//*         DD DSN=&HLQ..SDWWLENU,DISP=SHR 
//*         DD DSN=&HLQ..DWWEXLD,DISP=SHR 
//DWWMSG   DD SYSOUT=* 
//DWWPRINT DD SYSOUT=* 
//DWWDUMP  DD SYSOUT=* 
//         PEND 
//* END OF PROC 
)ENDSEL

When you leave the editor, you go back to the CICS VR main menu.