front-end app that launchs a DS job sequence

[DStageNewbie]

We are building a front-end app that will be used to capture info needed to drive our DS process. The info will be stored in DB2 tables on the mainframe.

Does anyone have expereince using a front-end app to start a DS job, so that the user does not actually have to sign-in to DS? Is this possible? We are hoping that the f-e can be used to capture the parms needed by our DS process as well as to start the process.

[ray.wurlod]

Start the process is easy - use the dsjob command. Capturing the parameters should be fairly easy too, assuming they're stored somewhere sensible (though you do need to consider how to protect sensitive data such as passwords). You can build all of that into a script. There are examples posted on DSXchange and elsewhere.