On Wed, 12 Nov 2025 14:10:34 -0500, Phil Smith III wrote: >We install our product via SMP/E, and of course provide sample JCL to do so. >Those jobs currently specify VOLSERs everywhere via a VOLSER variable, with >the expectation that customers will further configure the jobs for their >installation, especially if using SMS. > ... When I faced such a chore (long ago; SMS and multilpe volumes didn't concern me) I composed JCL with placeholders for all configurable parameters. And an ISPF EDIT REXX configuring macro. (perhaps not my first choice, but customers...) in the same PDS (why proliferate entities), containing as comments instructions for customizing. (I never mastered File Tailoring..
I tested personally with for each member the sequence, Edit; Configure with macro; Submit; Cancel. Worked for me through RECEIVE; APPLY CHECK; APPLY; ACCEPT. I made no editing changes except to the macro. It went next to a co-developer (to keep me honest). She never used my macro, but edited each member with commands according to comments in the macro. Then to an independent (good) test group where a tester immediately complained, "when I insert your prototype DVD (yes, then) it asks me where to save the images it contains. There are no instructions for this." (hey were just company logos for the README.html.) I had tested with the same OS; must have been a different configuration. So I taught myself .BAT, only to novice level; I never aspired to become a master .BATter. And wrote a .BAT to launch my README.html when the disk was loaded. The .html contained to the extent possible, <PRE> command </PRE> to copy/paste to desktop or TSO command line. I hate typing. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
