Any utilities? Don't want to use any programs.

kckinney

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• Sep 3rd, 2010

JCL itself is unable to do this, however there is a suite of programs beginning with IEB*.I think the one you're looking for is IEBUPDTE.  The syntax of the commands are so arcane that it'...

serken

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• Dec 20th, 2008

JCL itself cannot update any file. JCL only can execute other programs. Period.Any file update can be done either by a standard utility program, or by specifically written user program. Period.

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dhs01

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• Apr 15th, 2009

Basically a GDG is a catalog that will keep track of files. These files have names that conform to a certain standard. They can be generated and referenced using relative numbers. Existing versio...

serken

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• Dec 20th, 2008

Actually the dataset names are created as followsX.Y.Z.G00001V00 X.Y.Z.G00002V00 X.Y.Z.G00003V00 X.Y.Z.G00004V00 X.Y.Z.G00005V00 X.Y.Z.G00006V00. . . . . . . . . etc up to the maximum number of genera...

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ManFrame

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• Nov 13th, 2009

No, If the JCL is ending with the JCL error no new dataset will be allocated but if the job is abending in that case it depends on the step count.Like if the job abends on step after which we are allo...

aripiralasubbu

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• Apr 2nd, 2009

If JCL error occurs after the creation of data set statement in the step, then data set is created successfully, otherwise if error occurs before the creation of data set statement or creation statement then data set wont be created.

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In what order does the system evaluate comparison operators?

zameeer

• Oct 9th, 2015

Add, Subtract, Divide, Multiply and Logical operators are performed

leela10

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• Feb 13th, 2010

The operators and their precedence order from highest to lowest are: Navigation operator ( . ) Arithmetic operators in precedence order: + - unary ...

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How will you change the dataset name in PROC without altering it?

kckinney

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• Sep 3rd, 2010

You can override it from the calling job.  One way is to use a JCL override in the form of - PROCSTEP.PROCDD DD DSN=[overriding dsn name]This is fine provided you always use the same override dat...

avr1985

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• Jul 4th, 2010

You can change the dataset name in the procedure without change its name in the Proc.,  mention STEPNAME.DDNAME DSN=NEWFILE NAME by writing above code in JCL  it changes the proc DS in proc.

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How to use conditional statement in job as well as exec statement.with example?

Hamsa

• Sep 25th, 2011

By COND operator and IF THEN ELSE , condition can be specified in JCL

Hema

• Sep 19th, 2011

When we use conditional statements if the condition
specified is true then step bypassed, and if you use if and else statements then condition specified is true then step is
executed.

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Hi Friends,

question am going to ask is very simple but suggest me your way of thinking

am having 5 steps, i want to keep cond(condition code) for 4th step, in which the 4th step run only all the above three steps must get abend. If any one of the first 3 steps run successful the step-4 must by-pass.

If any mistakes are there please excuse me.

kannan

• Apr 7th, 2013

Place Cond=(0,EQ,step1),(0,EQ,step2),(0,EQ,step3) in the the 4th step

Gunesh

• Feb 21st, 2013

The best way for this problem is give cond=only.

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Chan

• Sep 7th, 2019

IEBGENER is used to copy ps to ps,
IEBCOPY is used to copy from pds to pds.
REPRO is used to copying from Sequential dateset to VSAM
date set and vice versa.

Tom Berg

• Jan 3rd, 2018

I wanted to know which utility (IDCAMS, IEBCOPY, IEBGENER) is the most efficient to copy big sequential FB file?

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Bharath s

• Sep 14th, 2017

SORT FILEDS=COPY OUTFIL FILES=OUT,TRAILER1=(1:COUNT),REMOVECC,NODETAIL

Code
SORT FILEDS=COPY

OUTFIL FILES=OUT,TRAILER1=(1:COUNT),REMOVECC,NODETAIL

bharath s

• Sep 14th, 2017

//TOOLIN DD * COUNT FROM (IN) /*

Code
//TOOLIN DD *

  COUNT FROM (IN)

/*

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Afroz Alam

• Mar 14th, 2006

Coding the status filed as OLD results in the OS searching for an existing data set of the name specified. If the file is written to then its old data will be lost, replaced by the new dataSetting DIS...

Amit

• Jan 30th, 2006

but I have seen in several cases that DISP=SHR is also used as a out file( but DCB was not given there),how I can be modified or newly created?? please replyThanks Amit

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The JOB, EXEC and DD statement.

Daryljax

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• Aug 27th, 2007

1) JOB - To identify the Job2) EXEC - To identify which program has to Execute3) DD - To supply the input/output files required for program execution4) PROC - To indicate the procedure5) PEND - End an inline PROC

Daryl Wells

• Aug 27th, 2007

JOB,
PROC,
EXEC,
DD,
PEND

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A keyword in a JCL statement may appear in different places and is recognized by its name, eg. MSGCLASS in the JOB statement. The opposite is positional words, where their meaning is based on their position in the statement, eg. in the DISP keyword the =(NEW,CATLG,DELETE) meanings are based on first, second and third position.

balakrishnaraothota

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• Jul 18th, 2008

Positional and keyword parameters comes to jcl statements keyword means for information

balakrishnaraothota

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• Jul 18th, 2008

Keyword means explicitly not for information this we will get parameters

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Datasets can be grouped in a DD statement one after another, eg. in a JOBLIB statement where the load module can exist in one of many datasets.

neha srivastav

• Jul 24th, 2007

For concatinating datasets through JCL, we can use MERGE Utility. Condition is that the datasets should be in sorted order.

jayakumar

• Sep 10th, 2006

The rules for concatening dataset is as follows:1)The LRECL value must be same for all the datasets2)The dataset which has the largest blksize must be given first3)we cannot concate a PS with the PDScheers,jai

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The comment statement is //* followed by the comments.

Neha Deka

• Oct 6th, 2007

1. prefix the comment by //*2. use a space after writiing the parameters in the statement]3. anything written between 73-80 coloumn is considered as a comment

Shamina Sharma

• Jul 24th, 2007

We can designate comment by //*?in JCL or by writing?any where after code, after giving one space

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Alfredo Wagner

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• Aug 1st, 2009

The step by pass without COND?occurs when- you code IF command- a previous STEP cancel- JCL ERROR occurs

Bibhu

• Mar 31st, 2006

Hi Siva,               Its not that Disp=pass will solve the case. As Pass is used to pass the datatset from one step to another and not to pass the step itself.

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Chandru

• Aug 19th, 2006

U can use... DISP=(MOD,DELETE,KEEP)This will create the dataset if it is not present... Deletes the dataset in case of Normal Execution and KEEPs the dataset in case of abnormal termination and the file can be used in the next run as the disp it is MOD.

pradeepbhatt

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• Jun 6th, 2006

DISP can be like one of these:1. DISP = (OLD,KEEP,DELETE)2. DISP = (OLD,CATLG,DELETE)

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kkkanagaraj

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• Jul 25th, 2007

Hi i am unable to get what you meant as 'paged'?

kiran

• Apr 17th, 2006

Hi,ADDRSPC: this parameter specifies whether your job should use the Virtual memory or the Real memory when executing. Advantage of Virtual memory is , the Job can be paged. Virtual is Default.Region:...

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kckinney

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• Sep 3rd, 2010

Yes, with the introduction of USS, z/OS can support Java or any number of POSIX compliant languages.There may be others depending on how tighly you defind OO programming.  By using loose definition, you could code OO in any language.A tighter definition would limit the langueages considerably

priya anbanandam

• Jun 1st, 2006

hi all,AION tool used in mainframes ,it's an expert system tool uses object oriented concepts in depth.thanks

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kckinney

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• May 22nd, 2007

Without knowing your product load, it's impossible to answer your question. For example, you could have an HTML enabled CICS region using DB/2 as a backend. Or you could be doing IPv6 translation to...

Shasha

• Nov 8th, 2006

Back-end testing is like Black Box testing. Means no need to walking through the program step by step. For Back-end testing, a Test Job needs to be prepare to execute a program, which we would like to...

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A symbolic is a PROC placeholder; the value for the symbolic is supplied when the PROC is invoked, eg. &symbol=value. An override replaces the PROC's statement with another one; it substitutes for the entire statement.

Gomathy

• Apr 8th, 2007

Symbolic parameters are placed in the EXEC statements , and during compilation of the JCL, will replace the value. A typical use of Symbolic variables is, we can write generic PROC to be executed in v...

Soumik Das

• Feb 20th, 2007

The symbolics of the PROC are the parameters specified in the PROC the overirde whereas are the arguements which change the parameters...like in a PROC say TREE you can specify ...// DSN = &TEST,w...

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