Batch Job for VTAM Modeling Statement Support fails with error TPB583 XTRACE DATASET UNUSABLE, INVALID DEVICE TYPE.

Products

• Teleview
• TELEVIEW- PACKAGE
• TPX - Session Management
• Vman Session Management for z/OS

Issue/Introduction

Description:

The TPX Batch Administration Guide contains a chapter on Using VTAM Modeling Statements. This provides a batch facility using wildcards and system variables to generate your VTAM APPL statements rather than creating everything manually.

The documentation contains this sample model job:

//USER54 JOB (0,A300),MODELJCL,CLASS=V,MSGCLASS=H,NOTIFY=USER54
//       EXEC procname,VNODE='*MODEL*'
//LOG    DD SYSOUT=*
//XTRACE DD DUMMY
//SYSIN  DD input file containing models
//SYSUT2 DD output file that will contain the expanded statements

This job will fail with error TPB583 XTRACE DATASET UNUSABLE, INVALID DEVICE TYPE.

 

Environment

Release:
Component: TLVIEW

Resolution

Do not include the //XTRACE DD DUMMY statement.

The XTRACE DD from the TPX PROC should be used rather than being dummied out.

The sample model job should be:

//USER54 JOB (0,A300),MODELJCL,CLASS=V,MSGCLASS=H,NOTIFY=USER54
//       EXEC procname,VNODE='*MODEL*'
//LOG    DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSIN  DD input file containing models
//SYSUT2 DD output file that will contain the expanded statements

This documentation will be updated in a future release.