The Batch Selection panel, ISRJPA, includes two variables that control Batch processing. The variable RTNPNL contains the name of the panel that corresponds to the Batch Selection panel (for ISRJPA the corresponding panel is ISRJPB). The variable ZDSCKO is associated with the Source Data Online field on the Batch Selection panel. If you enter YES in that field, the Batch option provides error checking and verification of the input data sets. If NO is entered, no data set verification is performed. The NO option allows you to submit a job to be run at a later time if the data sets are not online.

If the Source Data Online field, variable ZDSCKO, is set to YES, the dialog variables required for batch option panels are the same as those for foreground processing. That is, variables PRJ1, LIB1, LIB2, LIB3, LIB4, TYP1, MEM, DSN, and ZSEL must be defined in either the )INIT, )BODY, or )PROC section of the panel displayed by ISRJB2.

If the Source Data Online, variable ZDSCKO, is set to NO, these variables are not required. However, if a data set name is not supplied to ISRJB2 in these variables, the output variables ZDSQMEM, ZDSQ, ZDSQ2, ZDSQ3, ZDSQ4, ZDS, ZDS2, ZDS3, ZDS4, ZMEM, and ZORG are blank when control is passed to the CLIST referenced in variable ZSEL in the option panel. See Required option entry panel variables.