Generating a batch job that performs a print
To generate a batch job that prints data from an IMS data base:
- Select option 3 Utilities from the Primary Options Menu and then 5 Print from the Utility Menu. The Print Entry panel is displayed.
- Notice that many of the fields on the Print Entry panel are also on
the Browse Entry panel. To fill out the fields that are common to both panels,
follow one of these sets of instructions according to which Region type and
PSB type you want the Print to use:
- Steps 2 to 9 in Accessing in BMP mode using a Static PSB.
- Steps 2 to 8 in Accessing in BMP mode using a Dynamic PSB.
- Steps 2 to 10 in Accessing in DLI mode using a Static PSB.
- Steps 2 to 9 in Accessing in DLI mode using a Dynamic PSB.
- In the Print format field, enter the format you
want used for the printed data:
- Enter 1 for character format.
- Enter 2 for hexadecimal format.
- Enter 3 for SNGL format.
- Enter 4 for TABL format.
If you select SNGL or TABL format, you must select "New" or "Existing" for View usage.
- If you want the print to use a keys file, enter / in the Use key values field.
- If you selected "Existing" for View usage and you want to edit the view before the Print uses it, enter "/" in the Edit view field.
- Press Enter to process the data you entered. According to what you entered on the panel,
one or more of these panels may be displayed in the order they are listed:
- Subsystem Selection panel
- Displayed when you enter no subsystem name or a subsystem name pattern.
- Displays a list of IMS subsystems defined by the FM/IMS administrator at installation time.
- PSB Selection panel
- Displayed when you enter no PSB name or a PSB name pattern and select Static for the PSB type.
- Displays a list of the PSBs in the PSB libraries for the specified subsystem.
- PCB Selection panel
- Displayed when you select "Static" for PSB type
and one of the following is true:
- You enter no database name and there is more than one database PCB in the specified PSB, or
- You enter a database name and there is more than one PCB for the database in the PSB, or
- You enter a database name pattern and the PSB has PCBs for databases with names that match the pattern
- Displays a list of the PCBs in the specified PSB.
- Displayed when you select "Static" for PSB type
and one of the following is true:
- Database Selection panel
- Displayed when you enter no database name or a database name pattern and select "Dynamic" for PSB type.
- Displays a list of the DBDs in the DBD libraries for the specified subsystem.
- AGN Selection panel
- Displayed when all of these are true:
- You select "BMP" for Region type.
- The specified subsystem uses AGNs and has some of them listed in the FM/IMS installation options module.
- You enter no AGN name or an AGN name pattern.
- Displays the AGNs for the subsystem that are listed in the FM/IMS installation options module.
- Displayed when all of these are true:
- View Data Set Selection panel
- Displayed when you enter a View data set name pattern and select "Existing" for View usage.
- Displays a list of the data sets whose names match the specified View data set name pattern.
- View Member Selection panel
- Displayed when the specified View data set is partitioned, you enter no View member name or a View member name pattern and you select Existing for View usage.
- Displays a list of the members in the View data set.
On each selection panel that is displayed, enter
Sin the Cmd field adjacent to the item you want to select and press Enter. - Subsystem Selection panel
- If you selected "DLI" for Region type and did not select the
Skip DB data set panel option, either the Database Data Set Display
or the Database Data Set Specification panel is displayed.
- The Database Data Set Display panel is displayed when a database that is a HALDB or a subsystem that is defined as dynamic allocation only is selected on the Print Entry panel. This panel displays the names of the database data sets that the function will use. Verify that the database data sets listed are the ones you want the function to use. To confirm usage of these data sets and to proceed to the next panel in the dialog, press Enter.
- The Database Data Set Specification panel is
displayed when a database that is not a HALDB and a
subsystem that is not defined as dynamic allocation
only is selected on the Print Entry panel. If you
selected User profile for the Fetch DB dsnames from
option, it displays the data set names saved in your
user profile. If you selected DFSMDA members for the
Fetch DB dsnames from option, it displays the data
set names specified in the DFSMDA dynamic allocation
members for the subsystem.
The Database Data Set Specification panel is displayed when the Skip DB data set panel option is not selected, but it is also displayed when the Skip DB data set panel option is selected and one of the following conditions is true:
- FM/IMS fails to obtain all the required data set names from either your user profile or the DFSMDA members.
- One or more of the database data sets does not exist or has an invalid data set organization.
If the displayed data set names are not the ones you want the function to use or no data set names are displayed, enter the data set names that you want the function to use and press Enter. To confirm usage of the displayed data set names and to proceed to the next panel in the dialog, press Enter once more.
- If you selected the Use key values option on the
Print Entry panel, the Print Options panel is displayed.
On the Print Options panel, specify the name of your keys file in the Key Values fields and press Enter.
- FM/IMS uses the data you specified in the dialog
to generate JCL for the Print job. The JCL is
displayed at the end of the dialog.
You can edit the JCL before submitting the job.
Note: The minimum required region size is 2M.
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