Knowing resource names

You must know what resources you need, because the resource names are not always obvious from the modern name of the object. For example the resource needed to retrieve a job stream is AD, which is derived from the old name of Application Description.

In addition, sometimes you need use a different resource name when using LIST to the one you must use when using SELECT.

For example, you would LIST ADCOM to find a list of job streams, but then you would need to SELECT AD to retrieve each job stream completely.

Workload Automation Programming Language allows alternative, more obvious names to be used; therefore you can now LIST JOBSTREAM to get a list of job streams and then SELECT JOBSTREAM to retrieve a complete individual definition. To retrieve only the common segment of a job stream, you can still SELECT ADCOM just as before.

For a complete list of the available aliases for each PIF command, see Alternative resource names.