Occasionally you may wish to submit a batch job to JES from CICS through internal reader. You submit JCL using SPOOLOPEN, SPOOLWRITE and SPOOLCLOSE commands.
How to send…
The first point is…
EXEC CICS
SPOOLOPEN OUTPUT MODE('*') USERID(INTRDR)
TOKEN(report_token) RESP(response field)
END-EXEC.
The explanation is NODE(‘*’) specifies a destination node to JCL to. The USERID is set to the name of internal reader.
A unique token will be allocated by CICS when the SPOOLOPEN is executed and placed in the field you specify using TOKEN(report_token). The token will be used as a sending field on subsequent commands. The token will be 8 bytes long. RESP must be coded to check return code.
The second point is…
To write each line of the JCL use SPOOLWRITE command
EXEC CICS SPOOLWRITE FROM(io_area) TOKEN(report_token) RESP(response field) END-EXEC.
The io-area field should be the name of a data item containing the line of JCL. The 8 byte token field is same as the token returned from SPOOLOPEN.
At the end of the job statement write either ‘//’ or ‘//*’.
The third point is…
Finally you must close the spool using SPOOLCLOSE. It is good practice to close it explicitly.
EXEC CICS SPOOLCLOSE TOKEN(report_token) RESP(response field) END-EXEC.
The report_token field is same as the one allocated to SPOOLOPEN.
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