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Workplace (Option 3)

The Workplace Option, option 3 on the Equivalent JCL Comparison menu, allows you to display the Consolidation Workplace panel, which was created by merging member lists of up eight libraries.

When you select a jobdeck member versions set (a row of the table displayed on the Consolidation Workplace panel), M+R

  • Parses the jobdecks for JCL procedures calls and ignores any in-stream procedures.

  • Copies the procedures and include code from the proper PROCLIBs.

  • Parses and copies nested JCL procedures and include code up to seven levels.

  • Substitutes the symbolic variables with proper values, taking into account the jobdeck overrides, JCL procedure default values, and the SET statements.

  • Marks each line containing symbolic variables with XX and follows it with the same line after the substitution.

  • Compares the resulting version of Equivalent JCL.

  • Merges the versions and displays them for browsing.

You can use all of the primary and line commands to browse and edit the merged versions (see Using the Version Browser and Using the Version Editor). If you edit the merged version, your changes will be saved in the WIS file across your M+R sessions. However, you could not export the Equivalent JCL. If you want to do some real reconciliation of JCL code, split the screen and use the Library Consolidation tool.