Does CA Common Services for z/OS allow the use of Symbolics in RIMPARMS?

Products

• CIS
• COMMON SERVICES FOR Z/OS
• 90S SERVICES
• DATABASE MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS FOR DB2 FOR Z/OS
• COMMON PRODUCT SERVICES COMPONENT
• Common Services
• Datacom/AD
• CA ECOMETER SERVER COMPONENT FOC
• Easytrieve Report Generator for Common Services
• INFOCAI MAINTENANCE
• IPC
• UNICENTER JCLCHECK COMMON COMPONENT
• Mainframe VM Product Manager
• CHORUS SOFTWARE MANAGER
• CA ON DEMAND PORTAL
• CA Service Desk Manager - Unified Self Service
• PAM CLIENT FOR LINUX ON MAINFRAME
• MAINFRAME CONNECTOR FOR LINUX ON MAINFRAME
• GRAPHICAL MANAGEMENT INTERFACE
• WEB ADMINISTRATOR FOR TOP SECRET
• Xpertware
• Compress Data Compression for MVS
• Compress Data Compression for Fujitsu

Issue/Introduction

Each system found in a SYSPLEX may require unique values to be coded in the RIMPARMS identifying the system where it is running.  To provide flexibility and avoid coding multiple, almost identical, RIMPARMS unique to each system, CAIRIM allows the use of system symbols within the parms themselves.    

Wanting to verify the use of system symbols is allowed in RIMPARMS.
Example:
PRODUCT(CA DATACOM) VERSION(BD15) INIT(DBCR5PR) - LOADLIB(SYSSS.ENF.&$SSDCENF..CAAXLOAD.&IPLGROUP) - PARM(PC=PROD,PCC=DBPCCPR)
Where &$SSDCENF is equal to a release level in IEASYMxx and &IPLGROUP is also defined in IEASYMxx.

Environment

Executing CAS9 for Resource Initialization Management and using System Symbols in the CAIRIM parms.

Resolution

Yes, that is allowed. Since CAIRIM PTF RO52581 offers the following options for RIMPARMs for improved SYSPLEX parm sharing capability:

• IF/ENDIF
• LOG/NOLOG
• System symbol substitution

Additional Information

Please see the discussion on the use of System Symbols in the CAIRIM control statement found under the heading of IF/ENDIF Logic Statements and System Symbols found in:

• The CA Common Services for z/OS r14.1 Documentation wiki 
• The CA Common Services for z/OS r14.1 Administration Guide