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HCL Workload Automation for Z
Welcome to the HCL Workload Automation for Z documentation, where you can find information about how to install, maintain, and use the product.
Managing the Workload
You can plan when and how your workload runs and manage it as part of a plan.
Planning and scheduling
Learn how to organize your workload while it runs, and the dependencies among its parts.
Job tailoring
Variable substitution
Where variables can be used

Where variables can be used

HCL Workload Automation for Z variables can be used anywhere in your job and as many times as you want. Variables used in comment and in-stream data will also be substituted.

Substitution takes place depending on the setting of the VARSUB initialization statement. If VARSUB(YES) is specified, variable scanning is performed for all operations. If VARSUB(SCAN) is specified, HCL Workload Automation for Z searches for variables only if the //*%OPC SCAN directive has been encountered in the job.

HCL Workload Automation for Z does not substitute variables within procedures, with the exception of inline procedures when VARPROC(YES) has been specified in the OPCOPTS statement. However, variables are substituted in the calling EXEC statement. See Variable substitution in z/OS JCL procedures.