The program attributes section of the TP profile contains information about the program's status and defines a delimiter to mark the beginning and the end of the transaction scheduler section.

  Active Status ──────────────────→ ACTIVE(YES|NO)
  Beginning of Scheduler Section ─→ TPSCHED_DELIMITER(delimiter1)

  End of Scheduler Section ───────→ delimiter1

ACTIVE(YES|NO)

Indicates whether the TP can be accessed for scheduling. When a TP profile is active, the TP can be scheduled by a transaction scheduler. When a TP profile is not active, the TP cannot be scheduled until its profile is changed back to active status. The default is YES, which indicates the TP is active.

The ACTIVE keyword allows an installation to temporarily deactivate a TP profile when the TP fails for an unknown reason. Deactivation prevents continued requests for the TP, which would result in repeated failures, and allows the programmer to read the message log for information about why the TP failed.

TPSCHED_DELIMITER(delimiter1)

Marks the beginning of the transaction scheduler section and identifies a delimiter that will be used to mark the end of the transaction scheduler section. The delimiter can be from 1 through 53 characters but cannot be a character string that appears within the transaction scheduler section itself. When the delimiter marks the end of the transaction scheduler section, it must appear on a line of its own and start in the first column.