These options are global, i.e. they are valid for ALL applications managed in Console.
Introduction
The PDS dump option provides the means to configure Console to recognise Mainframe source code (Cobol, JCL etc.) and other source code such as Perl or ColdFusion that may be provided as a PDS (Partitioned Data Set) dump. A PDS is a type of "library" containing elements known as "members" exported from a z/OS system (eg. Cobol programs, copybooks, JCL and other technologies such as Perl or ColdFusion etc.) Each member in the PDS is preceded by a banner containing the member's name (among other information) and is concatenated with other elements in text format.
Console only supports one type of member and one banner prefix per PDS dump file. If there are several types of members and if several banner prefixes are used for the same type of members, they must be delivered through multiple PDS dump files. Each PDS dump file that is recognised by Console will be extracted: one file (to be analyzed) will be created per element in the PDS dump file and these files are then analyzed when an analysis is run.
Out of the box settings
Out of the box, Console will have several PDS library extensions predefined. This will ensure that Console is able to recognise PDS dump files provided in the source code configured as follows - you can leave these predefined PDS types as is, or you can delete/edit as necessary:
All entries will be configured with a banner prefix "VMEMBER NAME", left margin =1 and Line maxLength = 80:
- COBX
- .cob
- CPYX
- .cpy
- JCLX
- .jcl
- PSBX
- .psb
- DBDX
- .dbd
- BMSX
- .bms
Available options
| Use this option to create a new PDS library entry (i.e. so that Console is able to recognise it). The following dialog box will be displayed allowing you to configure the entry:
Fill in the fields as required. A description of each field is listed below. |
|---|---|
| Library extension | The file extension of the PDS dump file, for example COPYX. Composite extensions are also supported, for example those containing dots such as XXX.YYY. The following characters are not supported in this field: \/:?"*<>| |
| Member file extension | This option enables you to choose the content (via a file extension) of the PDS dump file that will be extracted - i.e. entering .cpy will ensure that only Cobol Copybooks will be extracted. Only one file extension is permitted. This option was previously known as Library Content and instead of entering a file extension, content was selected by a predefined list of Mainframe file types. |
| Banner prefix | Indicates the left hand part of the banner in the PDS dump excluding the member name. This determines the start of each member - this is used by Console to identify each member. |
| Left margin | Indicates the line column(s) in which system characters are present. This column (or columns) are ignored during the extraction and are not transferred to file. |
| Line maxLength | For each member line that will be extracted, this value indicates the line max length that will be retained during the extraction to file. Any characters that are located in the line beyond the line max length will be ignored during the extraction and packaging process and are not transferred to file. |
| Click to edit the selected entry. |
| Click to delete the selected template. |
