DDICF Failure with Librarian member

Products

• Datacom
• Datacom/DB

Issue/Introduction

Using DDICF to read a COBOL copybook and create DDUPDATE transactions for a new table. It works fine when the copybook is stored into a PDS but fails when trying to pull the copybook out of Librarian.

Environment

z/OS

Librarian

 

Resolution

1. Go to the samples as instructed in How to Obtain the Sample Members
2. Select the first option:
   • Datadictionary SAMGEN sample assemblies and jobs
3. Select DDSAM10 entry which provides SAMPLE JCL TO LINK-EDIT THE DDICF MODULE TO THE CUSTOM CUSLIB FOR LIBRARIAN SUPPORT.

Additional Information

For documentation on DDICF , see Generating DDUPDATE Transactions Using DDICF and DDICF - Generating Input Transactions