CICS PA Control Data Sets
To work with CICS PA Report Sets, Report Forms, and Object Lists, you must first identify the data sets where they are to be stored. These are called the CICS PA Control Data Sets.
To specify the control data sets, select option 3 CICS PA Control Data Sets from the Profile Options Menu, or enter CDS from the command line anywhere in the CICS PA dialog.
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CICS PA Control Data Sets
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Specify the names of the CICS PA Control Data Sets.
Report Sets . . . 'xxxx.CICSPA.RSET'____________________________ +
Report Forms . . . 'xxxx.CICSPA.FORM'____________________________ +
Object Lists . . . 'xxxx.CICSPA.OBJL'____________________________ +
Repository . . . . 'CICSPA.XYX.REPOSTRY'_________________________ +
Missing Data Sets Option:
1 1. Allocate now
2. Allocate when required
- Report Sets
- Report Sets define selections of reports and extracts and their associated options.
- Report Forms
- Report Forms are used to tailor the format and content of particular reports and extracts.
- Object Lists
- Object Lists are user-defined lists of objects that are defined by name and can be specified in selection criteria to provide filtering of the report data.
You can specify the same data set for all three components. However, it is recommended that each type of component is stored in a separate data set to avoid conflict with member names.
For a particular component, related definitions should share a common data set. For example, keep related Report Sets together in the one data set, related Report Forms in another, and related Object Lists in a third.
However, you can have multiple data sets for each component, such as a separate data set for each CICS® subsystem or a personal data set. For each component, only one data set at a time is used by the dialog. That is, there is only one current Report Sets data set, one current Report Forms data set, and one current Object Lists data set. To change the current data set, enter the data set name or press Prompt (F4) to select from a list of data sets previously used.
Default Data Set Name | Explanation |
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'prefix.CICSPA.type' | TSO prefix and userid are the same |
'prefix.userid.CICSPA.type' | TSO prefix and userid are different |
'userid.CICSPA.type' | User has no TSO prefix |
The control data sets must be cataloged, partitioned data sets (PDS or PDSE) with RECFM=FB and LRECL=80. You can let CICS PA create the data sets dynamically using the default attributes of LRECL=80,BLKSIZE=6160,SPACE=(CYL,(1,1,50)). Alternatively, you can use standard facilities such as ISPF option 3.2 Data Set Utility to create and catalog the data sets.
When specifying the data set name, standard TSO conventions apply. For example, if the TSO option PROFILE PREFIX is in effect, the prefix is appended as the high-level qualifier unless the data set name is enclosed in quotes.
Specify the Missing Data Sets Option to tell CICS PA whether to allocate new data sets now or leave that until later when you try to perform functions that require them.
If the data set is not cataloged, a Confirm Create pop-up asks you to confirm that you want CICS PA to create the data set for you using default allocation attributes.
You can also specify the data set name of the Repository on this panel. The default name is 'CICSPA.HDB.REPOSTRY'. For information on this data set, see Repository.