Setting up the default dialog-controller connection table

Table EQQLUDEF contains values used when establishing the connection between the scheduler dialog user and the controller. These are default values set initially for your installation by the system programmer. Individual users can then modify the values to suit their requirements. Modify the table, adding the following information:

The names of the controllers in your installation
When a controller is accessed remotely, the combination of the controller name and the LU name of a server set up to communicate with it
The set of dialog–controller connections that are to be available to all dialog users

When a user opens the scheduler dialog 0.1, the scheduler first tries to read the connection table EQQALTCP in the ISPF profile library ISPPROF. The connection table name begins with the NEWAPPL ID specified when invoking the scheduler dialog. For example, if the ISPF application name is EQQB, the connection table name is EQQBLTCP. If you used a different ISPF application name xxxx, the connection table name is xxxxLTCP (if the application name is shorter than four characters, it is filled with x up to length 4). If it cannot find the table, it reads the default connection table EQQLUDEF from the ISPTLIB allocation.

When a user modifies the connection table (through the scheduler dialog option 0.1), the changes are written to the EQQALTCP (or xxxxLTCP ) table of ISPPROF.

To change the distributed EQQLUDEF table:

Choose the scheduler dialog option 0.1.
Set up the dialog-controller connections for the installation.
Copy the connection table EQQALTCP (or xxxxLTCP ) from your ISPF profile library to the scheduler table library allocated to ISPTLIB, renaming the copy to the default connection table name EQQLUDEF.
Optionally, to change the default subsystem name value shown on the EQQOPCAP panel, you need to change the default setting of the &xopcnm variable (currently set to OPCC) in the EQQXINIP dummy panel. You must do this before the 0.1 dialog option is selected for the first time, so that your customized value is used when the EQQLUDEF profile is read and the EQQxLTCP profile is created upon the first access to dialog option 0.1.

You can access and work with different controllers from the same TSO session, using ISPF SPLIT to start different HCL Workload Automation for Z instances with different ISPF application names. In this case you might want to add more than one option to invoke HCL Workload Automation for Z from the ISPF master application menu, as in the following example:

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     1 ....... - .............                                
     2 ....... - .............                                
     . ....... - .............                                
     OA OPC - Operations Planning and Control A <===          
     OB OPC - Operations Planning and Control B <===          
     . ....... - .............                                
  PROC                                                        
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     1, ....                                                  
     2, ....                                                  
     ., ....                                                  
     OA, 'PANEL(EQQOPCAP) NEWAPPL(EQQA)                       
     OB, 'PANEL(EQQOPCAP) NEWAPPL(EQQB)                       
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  END

Note: Because the value of the ISPF variable &XOPCNM. (displayed in the EQQOPCAP dialog as "You are communicating with xxxx") and the default controller selected in the 0.1 dialog (EQQXLUSL) are stored, respectively, in members xxxxPROF and xxxxLOUT, make sure that any changes you make to these ISPF profile members are made consistently. For example, if you modify or delete xxxxPROF, you must also modify or delete xxxLOUT.