Defining Local Resources and Initialization Defaults

Before bringing up the platform server, you must define your environment.

You must define the local system in the data set whose ddname is GLOBAL in the platform server startup JCL. You have to define each remote system in a separate member of the partitioned data set whose ddname is CONFIG in the platform server startup JCL.

The server requires certain information to initialize and function properly. This information is kept in the GLOBAL file. At initialization time, the server reads the DD statement GLOBAL and goes to the data set that is referenced in it. The server reads the information that is server specific from that data set. Before starting the server for the first time, you must specify the appropriate parameters in the GLOBAL data set.