Step 01: List the baskets created by ASCZ0202
Step 02: View the baskets content (1/2)
This is a perfect illustration of how "real" baskets look like (= CSV-kind of files).
The various data included in each record, is what gets created by using a Process option (within Execution options) with value 1 (Allocate), because all these data are required as input tags for the XML service to actually allocate these DSNs (shown in step 04 below).
By using value 1 (Info) or 3 (Delete), each record will only contain the mvslib value, because only a DSN is required as input tag for the XML service to either report about the DSN info (with data similar to ISPF option 3.2) or to actually delete these DSNs.
Step 02: View the baskets content (2/2)
Step 03: Launch the baskets
Step 04: Select XML
Above is an illustration of how ASC helps an XML newbee to take advantage of the extreme power of XML services. I.e. ASC "guides" you to picking (= finding !) the appropriate XML service (in this case DSS/SERVICE/ALLOCATE), and gives you all sorts of extra XML execution features (step 05, part 2/2 below) to get the job done.
Step 05: Execute XML (1/2)
Step 05: Execute XML (2/2)
So in this specific scenario the basket processing will trigger about 100 to 200 XML requests for each application, 1 for each record in each of the 3 basket DSNs in this scenario. Do the math if you'd have hundreds of applications (and then think of how long it would take to achieve the same result if you have to do this without using XML services ... hours, days or weeks?).
What is even (Abit)MORE: executing all these XML services can be done without "disturbing" the CMN/ZMF STC too much. This because of the input basket options shown above: turning on the options Split in units, Nr req/unit and Next unit after will facilitate a kind of work load balancing to actually execute all those services. That will avoid that regular ZMF users would experience bad response times from the CMN/ZMF started task while all those XML services are being processed (like compile jobs or promotion jobs that would take extremely long ...). Because of this, the scenario above can be executed also during CMN/ZMF primetime hours (instead of during none business hours at night or during weekends).
