Communicating with the user interface routine

Communication between HCL Workload Automation for Z panel and user exit routine is through the ISPF variable defined in shared pool. The panel passes the following variables to the user exit routine:

Table 1. Variables
Variables
UROSTAT CHAR(1) Current operation status
URNSTAT CHAR(1) New operation status
UROPERR CHAR(4) New operation error code
UROPDUR CHAR(5) New operation duration

The UROSTAT variable contains the status value of the current operation. New operation parameters are passed initialized to blank.

Table 2. Variables and descriptions
N3P_COM Variable Description
OPGROUP Authority group
OPADI Application ID
OPIAD Application input arrival date after MCP
OPIAT Application input arrival time after MCP
OPTXT Textual description
OPJBN OS job name or blank
OPWSN Workstation name
OPNUM Operation number
OPJCL JOB-, SYSOUT-class, or blank
OPFRM From number or blank
OPPSD Planned start date
OPPST Planned start time
OPPED Planned end date
OPPET Planned end time
OPOID Operation input arrival date
OPOIT Operation input arrival time
OPODD Operation deadline date
OPODT Operation deadline time
OPLOD Latest out for operation date
OPLOT Latest out for operation time
OPASD Actual start date
OPAST Actual start time
OPAAD Actual arrival date
OPAAT Actual arrival time
OPISD Intermediate start date if interrupted
OPIST Intermediate start time if interrupted
OPAED Actual end date
OPAET Actual end time
OPEDU Estimated duration, hh.mm
OPADU Actual duration, hhhh.mm
OP£PS Parallel servers required
OP£R1 WS resources required (r1)
OP£R2 WS resources required (r2)
OPCST Current status
OPERR Error code
OPAEC Automatic error completion (Y or N)
OPPRI Priority
OPXST Extended status
OP£SU Number of successors
OP£PR Number of predecessors
OP£SR Number of special resources
OPAJR Automatic hold/release (Y or N)
OPASUOP Automatic submit (Y or N)
OPTJT Time job (Y or N)
OPRESTA Restartable operation
OPRERUT Reroutable operation
OPWRER Operation was rerouted
OPAWS Operation alternate WS
OPDWTO Operation deadline WTO
OPMXLVL Maximum nesting level
OPUPDA Operation userdata field
OPMHLD Operation manually held field
OPNOP Operation nop field
OPEXEC Operation execute field
OPMCPUP Last MCP update
OPJES Job ID
OPCMJST Job log status
OPEXDEST Execution destination
OPEDUS Estimated duration hh.mm.ss
OPADUS Actual duration hh.mm.ss
OPMON External monitor (Y or N)