In today’s complex IT world, data centers run several thousand jobs. It is an enormous and sometimes overwhelming challenge to maintain them all throughout the Job Control Language (JCL) lifecycle. In addition to job validation that ensures syntactic correctness, there is also a need to maintain documentation for these jobs. ASG-DOCU/TEXT is designed to help any data center with their production JCL environment by generating operations and systems documentation from existing sources within the data center. In addition, textual information, such as restart instructions, may be added.

ASG-DOCU/TEXT provides a centralized documentation management solution for single LPAR data centers. Data sources include JCL, DB2, IMS, and several mainframe scheduling products (ASG-Zeke, TWS, ESP, and others). Repository options include VSAM files and PDS libraries.

Managing a large operations department is always an increasing challenge. The mission to support test and production processes must be carried out even while environmental and applications changes are occurring. To maintain service level objectives, operations information must be current, accurate, and accessible. Automated online run books for operations contain complete and concise job-level documentation required by operations analysts, production control personnel, and applications engineers.

Concise and accurate online cross-reference information is required by all applications programmers. Changes that are accurately analyzed the first time shorten the application delivery cycle and reduce maintenance backlogs. Knowing all the answers precludes unexpected results.

ASG-DOCU/TEXT eliminates the manual work involved with completing a project, causing productivity to increase as research and analysis time is reduced.