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Parameters - variables and expressions

The following table describes the parameters that accept variables and expressions:

Parameter

Description

Variable Assignment

Modifies working parameters for a job and/or passes parameters to a job when the job is submitted.

Defines variables that can be displayed in a Notification message or Do Mail message when a job completes.

NOTE: This parameter is called in certain Control‑M/Server utilities and in Control-M.

Command

Variables can be used as part of the command string.

Do Variable

Enables the user to specify variable statements to be resolved (in addition to those specified for Variable Assignment) depending on how a job ended. These can be local variables to be used if the job is rerun, or they can be global variables to be used by other jobs.

Member library

Variables can be used in this parameter to indicate the name of the library or directory in which the file described in the parameter is located.

Member

Variables can be used in this parameter to indicate the name of the file containing the job commands or job script.

Override Path

Variables can be used in this parameter to provide the name of the override path in which to search for the file that was specified using the File name/Member name parameter.

Notification
or Notify

Variables can be used in a Notification or Notify message to pass job parameters or other data to a user.

Output
Handling or
Do Output

Variables can be used in the field which provides supplementary information about the handling of the job’s output (for example, a filename) when the job ends OK.

The Variable Assignment and Set Variable parameters can also use the %%LIBMEMSYM variable to reference a list of variable expressions in a separate text file. You can also use the variable %%POOLSYM to reference Name Pool variables. For more information, see Variable lists.

Parent Topic

Control-M Variable facility