Submitting batch loader directly to the current plan

Within Workload Automation Programming Language, you can use batch loader statements to create an occurrence directly in the current plan without creating the application in the database. To do that, set ACTION(SUBMIT) in the ADSTART statement.

If OPTIONS DBMODE(ADD) or OPTIONS DBMODE(REPLACE)is used, only the statements in Batch Loader are used to build the occurrence in the plan. If OPTIONS DBMODE(COPY) or OPTIONS DBMODE(UPDATE) is used, any existing application with the same name in the database is used as a model with the batch loader statements making amendments to the version being added to the current plan, the database remains unchanged.

The ADSTART and subsequent segments perform the equivalent of an INSERT CPOC, so the batch loader must be followed by an EXECUTE MCPBLK to commit the occurrence to the plan. Unless you specify OPTIONS EXECUTE(MANUAL), this happens automatically before Workload Automation Programming Language terminates your session with HCL Workload Automation for Z.

It is possible to follow the batch loader statements with MODIFY or INSERT statements to amend the newly created occurrence before it is committed to the current plan with an EXECUTE statement. This makes it possible to INSERT predecessors or successors between the occurrence being created and specific occurrences already in the plan.

For example:

ADSTART ACTION(SETDEFAULT)                                          
ADOP DURATION(1)                                                    
ADSTART ACTION(SUBMIT) ADID(DYNAMAPPL) DESCR('DEMONSTRATE SUBMIT')   
   OWNER(TWS) ODESCR('TWS INFRASTRUCTURE') PRIORITY(5)              
ADOP WSID(CPU1) OPNO(1) JOBN(JOB1) DESCR('FIRST JOB')               
ADOP WSID(CPU1) OPNO(10) JOBN(JOB2) DESCR('SECOND JOB')             
ADOP WSID(CPU1) OPNO(20) JOBN(JOB3) DESCR('THIRD JOB')              
ADOP WSID(CPU1) OPNO(30) JOBN(JOB4) DESCR('FOURTH JOB')             
ADOP WSID(CPU1) OPNO(255) JOBN(JOB5) DESCR('LAST JOB')              
MODIFY CPOP OPNO(1)                                                 
INSERT CPPRE PREADID(PLANNEDAPPL) PREIA(0803081200) PREOPNO(030)
EXECUTE MCPBLK

Note: The entire object must be specified in batch loader before any INSERT or MODIFY statements can be used to alter it. Batch loader statements (such as, for example, ADSTART and ADOP) cannot be interleaved with current plan commands (such as, for example, MODIFY and INSERT).