IMBED parameter in VISION:Excel 7 installation job.

Products

• Vision:Excel

Issue/Introduction

Is IMBED needed in the VISION:Excel 7.0 installation job SMPJOB01?

Resolution

The SMPJOB01 member of the SMPCNTL installation PDS delivered with Vision:Excel 7.0 allocates the SMP/E CSI.

If running Workload Automation to perform a JCL Check, a severity 8 error may be generated regarding the IMBED parameter at the index level of the VSAM file allocation:

        CAY6037E UNKNOWN KEYWORD "IMBED" SPECIFIED IN OPERAND OF "INDEX"
 
 
    DEFINE CLUSTER (                              -
                    NAME(xxxxxxxx.EXCEL70.CSI)    -
                    FREESPACE(10,5)               -
                    KEYS(24 0)                    -
                    RECORDSIZE(24 143)            -
                    SHAREOPTIONS(2 3)             -
                   )                              -
               DATA(                              -
                    NAME(xxxxxxxx.EXCEL70.CSI.DATA) -
                    CONTROLINTERVALSIZE(4096)     -
                    CYLINDERS(10 5)               -
                   )                              -
              INDEX(                              -
                    NAME(xxxxxxxx.EXCEL70.CSI.INDEX) -
                    CYLINDERS(2 2)                -
                    IMBED                         -
                   )

According to the IBM documentation, "IMBED|NOIMBED is no longer supported; if it is specified, it will be ignored and no message will be issued".

So, while errors only occur if running a JCL check, IMBED is obsolete and can safely be deleted.