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Chapter 6. Using ACIF in OS/390, MVS, VM, and VSE
This chapter describes how to invoke ACIF in the OS/390, MVS, VM, and VSE
environments.
Using ACIF in the OS/390 and MVS Environments
Figure 20 contains sample JCL to invoke ACIF to process print output from an
application.
//USERAPPL EXEC PGM=user application
//PRINTOUT DD DSN=print file,DISP=(NEW,CATLG)
//ᑍ
//ACIF EXEC=APKACIF,PARM=[[ 'PARMDD=ddname ][,MSGDD=ddname']],REGION=3M
//INPUT DD DSN=ᑍ.USERAPPL.PRINTOUT
//OUTPUT DD DSN=output file,DISP=(NEW,CATLG),
// DCB=(LRECL=32756,BLKSIZE=3276,RECFM=VBA,DSORG=PS),
// SPACE=(3276,(nn,nn)),UNIT=SYSDA
//RESOBJ DD DSN=resource file,DISP=(NEW,CATLG),
// DCB=(LRECL=32756,BLKSIZE=3276,RECFM=VBA,DSORG=PS),
// SPACE=(3276,(nn,nn)),UNIT=SYSDA
//INDEX DD DSN=index file,DISP=(NEW,CATLG),
// DCB=(LRECL=32756,BLKSIZE=3276,RECFM=VBA,DSORG=PS),
// SPACE=(3276,(nn,nn)),UNIT=SYSDA
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=ᑍ
//SYSIN DDᑍ
ACIF parms go here
Figure 20. Sample OS/390 and MVS JCL to Invoke ACIF
Explaining the JCL Statements
The JCL statements in Figure 20 are explained as follows. For more information
about programming JCL, refer to
OS/390 MVS JCL Reference
.
USERAPPL
Represents the job step to run the application that produces the actual print
output.
USERAPPL
or
user application
is the name of the program that
produces the print data set.
PRINTOUT
The DD statement that defines the output data set produced from the
application. The application output cannot be spooled to the Job Entry
Subsystem (JES), because ACIF does not read data from the spool. The
print
file
is the name of the print data set created by the
user application
.
ACIF
Represents the job step that invokes ACIF to process the print data set. You
can specify two optional input parameters to ACIF:
PARMDD
Defines the DDname for the data set containing the ACIF processing
parameters. If PARMDD is not specified, ACIF uses SYSIN as the default
DDname and terminates processing if SYSIN is not defined.
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