Submitting a batch job

You can submit a batch job from the CICS Explorer System z perspective. You can either submit the job from the Data Sets view or you can submit the job from the data set editor.

Submitting a job from the Data Sets view

This procedure explains how you submit a job from the Data Sets view without having to open the file first.

  1. Open the Data Sets view and navigate to the file you want to submit.
  2. Right-click the file and click Submit.

The file is submitted. See the results section later in this topic for more information.

Submitting a job from the Data Set Editor view

This procedure explains how you can open a file in the Data Set Editor, make changes, and then submit the changed file from in the editor. You can then choose whether or not to save the changes to the file.

  1. Open the Data Sets view and navigate to the file you want to edit and submit.
  2. Double-click the file, or right-click and click Open. The file opens in the Data Set editor.
  3. Make any changes you want then right-click in the editor and click Submit.

Results

When a file is submitted a confirmation message, including the job number, is shown in the CICS Explorer status bar. The job is shown in the Jobs view when it is refreshed, and if the CICS Deployment Assistant plug-in is installed the job details are shown in the z/OS Jobs view.