3.2 Job Variables files (Revisited)

3.2 Job Variables files (revisited):

Job variables can be assigned values in two types of files:

1. Global variables file: Every PT job automatically reads the global variables file.

The user-defined path and filename of the global job variables file must put inside the  twbcfg.ini file as an entry

GlobalAttributeFile = ‘<userspath>/<usersGlobalJobVariablesName.’

2. Local job variables file: We can create local job variables file specific to the job.

The local job variables file needs to be specified separately using thee -v option on the tbuild command.

Ex: tbuild -f weekly_update.tbr -v local.jobvars

On MVS local job variables file is specified through the DDNAME of ATTRFILE.

Using job variables requires two things:

1. Setting up scripts that refer to local or global job variable values by specifying them using the form <attribute name>=@<job variable name>

Ex:

VARCHAR UserName=@Name

VARCHAR UserPassword=@Password

VARCHAR TdpId=@Tdp

2. Entering variable value assignments in the global job variables file or the local job variables file.

        We can add the variable assignments

• Separated by commas

• Or one assignment per line with no comma's

Ex:

 MyTdpId         = 'defaultTdpId'

,MyUserName      = 'defaultUserName'

,MyPassword      = 'defaultPassword'