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Administration and Programming Guide for OS/390


Customizing the Net.Data Initialization File

The information contained in the initialization file is specified using three types of configuration statements, described in the following sections:

The sample initialization file shown in Figure 2 contains examples of these statements.

The text of each individual configuration statement must all be on one line. (An ENVIRONMENT statement is shown on several lines for readability.) Ensure that the initialization file contains an ENVIRONMENT statement for each language environment that you call from your macros.

Figure 2. The Net.Data initialization file






1   %( changes: removed RETURN_CODE parm and DTW_DEFAULT 
    ENVIRONMENT statement %) 
2   DB2SSID DBNC
3   DB2PLAN DTWGAV22
4   DTW_DIRECT_REQUEST NO
5   DTW_SHOWSQL NO
6   MACRO_PATH   /usr/lpp/netdata/macros;
7   EXEC_PATH    /usr/lpp/netdata/testcmd;
8   FFI_PATH     /usr/lpp/netdata/file-data; 
9   ENVIRONMENT (DTW_SQL) dtwsql (IN LOCATION, DB2SSID, 
    DB2PLAN, TRANSACTION_SCOPE)
10  ENVIRONMENT (DTW_ODBC) odbcdll (IN LOCATION, TRANSACTION_SCOPE)
11  ENVIRONMENT (DTW_PERL) perldll ()
12  ENVIRONMENT (DTW_REXX) rexxdll ()
13  ENVIRONMENT (DTW_FILE) filedll ()
14  ENVIRONMENT (DTW_APPLET) appldll ()
15  ENVIRONMENT (DTW_SYSTEM) sysdll ()     



  • Line 1 contains a comment
  • Lines 2 - 5 define configuration variables
  • Lines 6 - 8 define paths to HFS files
  • Lines 9 - 15 define the environment statements that are available.



The following sections describe how to customize the configuration statements in the initialization file.

Migration Note: If you are migrating from a previous version of Net.Data, check each of the configuration statement sections for a complete description of changes that you might need to make when moving to a new release of Net.Data.

The following ENVIRONMENT statement changes are required:

The following changes should be considered because the Net.Data initialization file has new configuration variable default values:


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