You can modify the templates to meet your installation requirements
for preparing and running programs. These modifications are usually
done by a system administrator or project leader. To modify the templates,
create a new directory and copy all the templates from the default
directory. Make your changes to the copies of the templates and not
the original templates.
The runtime templates for z/OS® are
located in the following default directory:
shared_resources\plugins\com.ibm.etools.egl.generators.cobol_version\MVStemplates
- shared_resources
- The shared resources directory for your product, such as C:\Program
Files\IBM\SDP70Shared on a Windows system
or /opt/IBM/SDP70Shared on a Linux system.
If you installed and kept a previous version of an IBM® product containing EGL before installing
your current product, you may need to specify the shared resources
directory that was set up in the earlier installation.
- version
- The installed version of the plugin. If
more than one is present, use the one with the most recent version
number, unless you have a reason to use an older version.
The file type extension for the templates is always
.tpl.
Because different projects can require different templates, it
is important to have separate directories for each project. Each directory
must contain copies of all the templates. Use the templateDir build
descriptor option to specify the directory containing the templates
to be used. If this option is not specified the templates in the default
directory will be used.
Reasons to modify templates
You might need
to modify templates for the following reasons:
- Implementing installation data set naming conventions
- Changing the name of the cataloged procedure being called
- Assigning parameter values
- Adding DD statements to the STEPLIB concatenation
- Overriding DD statements
- Adding or changing the REGION parameter for a step