About BSTPCH DD in the Report JCL

Products

• Endevor

Issue/Introduction

What is the BSTPCH DD in the Report JCL?
Also, the temporary data set name for the generated JCL's BSTPCH DD is &TEMP instead of &&TEMP, is this correct?

Environment

Release : All

Resolution

The BSTPCH DD is used for the footprint extract report.
If the dataset is hardcoded then the extract repot will use that datset. 
If the customer is not running the footprint extract report that BSTPCH DD is not needed/ignored.

According to the IBM documents(Data set name for temporary data set), in general, the system treats a single ampersand(&) followed by a character string of 1 to 8 characters as a symbolic parameter. However, if you code a data set name as a symbolic parameter (by coding DSNAME=&xxxxxxxx), and do not assign a value to or nullify the symbolic parameter, the system will process it as a temporary data set name.

Additional Information

The skeleton JCL(C1SR8100) is used to generate all batch report. The BSTPCH DD has been in the product since R3.6.