Profiles and defaults - activate profiles and defaults

A SuperC profile is a data set that can contain a compare type, a listing type, a Browse setting, and various combinations of process options and process statements that you select.

SuperC profiles are useful for a wide range of users. Beginners can use profiles created by others as a simple method of running SuperC. Experienced SuperC users can create profiles for the groups of options they use often so that they do not have to remember individual process options and statements. Also, profiles give system programmers a mechanism for setting up complex compare tools that others can simply call by profile name.

Some other characteristics of profiles are:

A profile can be either a sequential data set or a member of a PDS.
Data set names are not represented in a profile.
Profiles can be created only with the SuperCE utility (option 3.13). However, once they are created, they can be used in the standard SuperC utility (option 3.12).
To change a profile, activate it and make the necessary changes to the information in the fields on the SuperCE Utility panel. Then select option C and create a profile, entering in the Activate/Create Profile DS Name field the name of the profile data set that you want to modify.
You can modify the SuperC default settings by selecting the Defaults option on the Profile Manager screen. See Figure 1 for an example of the SuperC - Defaults panel.
You can display the contents of a profile data set using View, Browse, or Edit. Figure 1 shows a Browse display of a profile data set.

Figure 1. Browse a SuperCE profile

   Menu  Utilities  Compilers  Help
 ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
            USERID.TESTPROF                           Line 00000000 Col 001 080
********************************* Top of Data **********************************
.* PROF PREFIX CTYP=LINE,LTYP=DELTA ,BRW=YES
.* PROF PREFIX PROC1=                                          * MARGIN*
.* PROF PREFIX PROC2=                                          * MARGIN*
******************************** Bottom of Data ********************************













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Selecting option A on the SuperCE Utility panel displays this panel. The panel is used to activate and create profiles.

Figure 2. SuperCE - Profile Manager panel (ISRSEPMG)

                           SUPERCE - Profile Manager

 A  Activate    Reads the specified input profile data set:
                1.  Establishes the process and compare options from the
                    profile prefix lines.
                2.  Establishes the profile as the process statement data set
                    if any process statements are detected.

 C  Create      Creates an output profile data set:
                1.  Combines process and compare options from the Primary Panel
                    and any process statements from the Statements Data Set:

                2.  Rewrites the profile data set (if the data set exists) or
                    allocates a new data set before generating the profile.

 D  Defaults    Presents panel for modifying SuperC defaults.

 Activate/Create
 Profile DS Name . . .                                                        



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The only field on this panel is:

Activate/Create Profile DS Name

The name of the profile data set that you want to either activate or create. This field is required.

If you choose option A (Activate), SuperCE copies the compare type, listing type, Browse setting, and any process options this data set contains. If the profile also contains process statements, SuperCE displays the name of the profile data set in the Statements Dsn field on the SuperCE Utility panel.

If you choose option C (Create), SuperCE copies the information that is saved into one output data set or member.

These topics describe the options shown at the top of the SuperCE - Profile Manager panel: