Intro to PAYDIST.FTP.JCL and .DATA

Introduction

A PDS is now available containing JCL templates which may be useful in creating and using MVS batch FTP jobs for retrieval of PAYDIST files. This PDS is campus-available as PAYDIST.FTP.JCL on the UCCMVSB machine at UCOP.
There is an associated PDS, PAYDIST.FTP.DATA, which is used for output from these jobs.

Notation Conventions

The templates in PAYDIST.FTP.JCL contain several tokenized variables which must be globally changed before use. They are:

   USERACCT   The campus choice for highest level of DSN for downloaded files.

   @@@@   The four digit release number

   *acct*   The FTP access username (currently PAYFTP).

   *passwd*   The FTP password (currently available from Payroll Managers).

The PAYDIST.FTP.JCL PDS

This PDS contains the following:

$BLD@@@@ - a 'template' with a large number of library/sequential dataset allocations ... add to these as you'd like, and for any given release, comment out what won't be needed. You can preview the $BLD@@@@ JCL template, or see how it looks when edited for use as $BLD1081 JCL.

$DEL@@@@ - a 'template' used like $BLD@@@, but used to delete datasets. You can preview the $DEL@@@@ JCL template, or see how it looks when edited for use as $DEL1081 JCL.

$FTP@@@@ - a 'template' of an FTP job retrieving every dataset allocated in the $BLD job from the UCCMVSB.PAYDIST.Rnnn datasets to local useracct.Rnnnn datasets. You can preview the $FTP@@@@ JCL template, or see how it looks when edited for use as $FTP1081 JCL.

USER@@@@ - a TSO LISTDS job to get a list of the FTP'd datasets DSN/DCB/mbrs and place it in local useracct.FPT.DATA(USER@@@@) where it may be compared to the HOST@@@@ job (run at UCOP and placed into PAYDIST.FTP.DATA(HOST@@@@)). You can preview the USER@@@@ JCL template, or see how it looks when edited for use as USER1081 JCL.

$COMPARE - a job to compare HOST@@@@ dataset list (created at UCOP) with USER@@@@ (created by the campuses). You can preview the COMPARE JCL template.

The PAYDIST.FTP.DATA PDS

This PDS contains the following:

You should also have files named with the pattern HOST@@@@ in your local useracct.FTP.DATA library. You can preview HOST1081 output.

This document last updated 9/6/96