Running PeopleSoft Process Scheduler or Application Engine From a JCL in OS/390
PeopleSoft Process Scheduler is customarily started and stopped from a JCL sample. JCLs are provided to accomplish this task. An Application Engine program must also be run from a JCL in some business cases. Any PeopleSoft executable residing in the UNIX System Services (USS) can be invoked from a JCL using the IBM BPXBATCH utility.
In the high-level qualifier where PeopleSoft is installed in OS/390, a partitioned dataset (HLQ.JCLLIB) contains the following JCL:
PRCSSTRT,JCL: JCL to start PeopleSoft Process Scheduler.
PRCSSTOP.JCL: JCL to stop PeopleSoft Process Scheduler.
AESAMP.JCL: Sample JCL to run an Application Engine program.
The following table identifies the meta-strings to use, in the order specified in a shell JCL template, for USS scheduler to pass COBOL parameters so that it can, in turn, call Application Engine:
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Meta-String |
Description |
|---|---|
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%PS_HOME% |
Path of PeopleSoft home directory |
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%PS_SERVDIR% |
Full path of the server directory, for example, $PS_HOME/appserv/prcs/PT840GA. |
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%PS_SERVERCFG% |
Full path of the psprcs configuration file, for example, $PS_SERVDIR/psprcs.cfg. |
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%PS_CONFIG% |
Full path of the psprcs.sh file, for example, $PS_HOME/psconfig.sh. |
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%HFS_USERID% |
Login ID (user ID). Same authorities as the user ID used for installation, or the user ID that started Process Scheduler. |
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%JOBNAME% |
Specifies the value entered in the OS/390 Job Controls Name field on the Process Profile Permission page for the permission lists specified as the user ID’s process profile. The process profile for a user ID can be set using the User Profiles page in the Security component. |
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%REGION_SIZE% |
Region size. The Default is −1. |
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%CPU_TIME% |
Maximum CPU time this Application Engine process is allowed to use. The default is 1000. This matches the default value for MAXCPUTIME variable of BPXPRMxx member of the SYS1.PARMLIB. |