The following is a list of some of the more common environment variables that you can configure for your PAC. These must be consistent for all member regions:
| Name | Description | Component |
|---|---|---|
| CICS_SIT | Specifies the name of the SIT used by the region. | CICS |
| ES_ALLOC_OVERRIDE | Specifies the location of a file containing rules that determine where new data sets are created. This applies only to JES and batch files, and not CICS, IMS, or Web services files. ES_ALLOC_OVERRIDE=rules-file | JCL |
| ES_CICS_SINGLE | Configures CICS so that a user can only log on once. | CICS |
| ES_CLASS_XCMD | Overrides the default CICS CMD resource class. | CICS |
| ES_CLASS_XDCT | Overrides the default CICS DCT resource class. | CICS |
| ES_CLASS_XFCT | Overrides the default CICS FCT resource class. | CICS |
| ES_CLASS_XJCT | Overrides the default CICS JCT resource class. | CICS |
| ES_CLASS_XPCT | Overrides the default CICS PCT resource class. | CICS |
| ES_CLASS_XPPT | Overrides the default CICS PPT resource class. | CICS |
| ES_CLASS_XPSB | Overrides the default CICS PSB resource class. | CICS |
| ES_CLASS_XRES | Overrides the default CICS DOCTEMPLATE resource class. | CICS |
| ES_CLASS_XTRAN | Overrides the default CICS TRAN resource class. | CICS |
| ES_CLASS_XTST | Overrides the default CICS TST resource class. | CICS |
| ES_DISABLE_DFLTUSR_SIGNON | Disables the default user (mfuser) signon when invoking ES Monitor & Control. | CICS |
| ES_EMP_EXIT_n | Specifies the number of Event Manager user exits for the region. | JCL |
| ES_ESM_CMDSEC | Indicates whether CICS processing honors the CMDSEC option specified on a transaction's PLT definition. | CICS |
| ES_ESM_PLTPIUSR | The user id under which PLT programs run during CICS initialization. | CICS |
| ES_ESM_RESSEC | Indicates whether CICS processing honors the RLS security setting specified on a transaction definition (PCT). | CICS |
| ES_ESM_SECPRFX | Indicates whether CICS processing prefixes the resource names when making security queries.
Note: The environment variable ES_ESM_SECPRFX is only applied to CICS classes.
|
CICS |
| ES_ESM_XUSER | Indicates whether CICS processing performs surrogate user checks. | CICS |
| ES_PAC_NO_GLOBAL_LOG | Stops the messages in the console.log from being stored in the PSOR. | PAC |
| ES_SOR_RETRIES | Sets the number of attempts to access records in the PSOR before stopping. | PAC |
| ES_USR_DFLT_CICS | Enables you to override the default user when no user is logged on for CICS authentication. | CICS |
| ES_USR_DFLT_JCL | Enables you to override the default user when no user is logged on for JCL authentication. | JCL |
| ES_USR_DFLT_JES | Enables you to override the default user when no user is logged on for JES authentication. | JCL |
| ES_WORKING_MODE | The working mode of the server. This indicates whether the server is to run 32-bit or 64-bit applications | |
| ES_XA_%xaname%_OPTIONS | Set for each RM that you require to operate in a multiple attempt mode. See
ES_XA_%xaname%_OPTIONS in
Environment variables in alphabetical order for details.
Dependency: Must be set along with ES_XA_RECONNECT=Y.
|
CICS |
| ES_XA_RECONNECT | Set this to configure the XA reconnect process to operate in a single attempt mode. See ES_XA_RECONNECT in Environment variables in alphabetical order for details. | CICS |
| MFSYSCAT | The location of the JES system catalog. | JCL |
| MFUSERCAT_BASE_LOC | If an entry in MFUSERCAT_LOC only specifies the file name of a user catalog rather than the full path and file name, use this environment variable to specify where these catalogs are located | JCL |
| MFUSERCAT_LOC | The location of the node(s) set in MFUSERCAT_NODE, separated by semi-colons if more than one is specified. | JCL |
| MFUSERCAT_NODE | Sets additional SMS, SPOOL and User catalogs. To enable support for the SMS entities DATACLAS and MGMTCLAS, this variable needs to be set in addition to setting MF_SMS=ON. | JCL |