(Andrews) Submitting Mainframe Batch Jobs from PC SAS®

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Submitting Mainframe Batch Jobs from PC SAS®
Rick Andrews, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Baltimore, MD

ABSTRACT

The SAS System offers a host of mechanisms to interact with remote platforms. This paper discuss’ an application to submit IBM® Mainframe batch jobs from a Microsoft® Windows™ operating system using SAS/AF®, SAS/Connect®, and the Internal Reader. These tools can create applications that keep track of each job, log, and output and send email when all is complete. This provides avenues for individuals without experience on the “Big Iron” (mainframe) to submit programs with little to no knowledge of IBM’s Job Control Language (JCL) or Computer Associate’s (CA) Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF). The code shown below was created using version 8.2 of SAS.

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