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What are the common errors you have ever seen during execution
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What is the difference between FECFM = F, REDFM = FB, RECFM = VB, RECFM = v and RECFM = U
kckinney
- Jun 11th, 2007
Fixed records have a fixed record lengthVariable records have variable length. The length of the record is recorded in the first 4 bytes of each record.Blocked vs unblocked - Blocked means it is form...
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How do you concatenate odd/even generations in GDG's?
kckinney
- Nov 1st, 2010
This question is kind of weird, but here goes...There is no native way of doing this.If forced to get this info, I'd LISTC the base to a dsn and extract the actual gens. Use this information to create JCL that concat's the desired gens and submit the JCL via intrdr.
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What are sort cards
nskang
- Jun 25th, 2008
Sort cards is a generic term used for DD card that we give for a DFSORT.i.e SORT FIELDS=COPYSUM FIELDS=NONEcan be called as a sort card to remove duplicatesSORT FIELDS=(1,4,CH.A) can be called as a sort card to sort the field which starts at 1st bye of length 4 in Ascending order.
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What are multiple symbolic parameters. Can we have multiple symbolic parameters in asingle JCL. If so kindly explain with an example
kishorekyn
- Sep 26th, 2007
The symbolic parameters are used to override an EXEC or DD statements' keyword pameters value. We can use multiple symbolic parameters as we have many keyword parameters in both the statements. No...
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Send email from mainframe
I need to send an email from mainframe using the parmcard which has HELO MAIL FROM:RCPT TO:DATAFROM: TO: SUBJECT:etcbut i also need to get the system date and time each time I do so.How do I get that when I submit the jcl which uses this parmcard as input?
poojaDeep
- Apr 14th, 2008
To send an Email from mainframe use:-PROC :- ARRMMAIL and use the control mem as RRMROLL1) . You can get this by using following code :In JCL code as:-//JS010 EXEC ARRMMAIL, ...
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//MYJOB JOB(T,U202,SH1),'FRANK SMITH',CLASS=A //STEP01 EXEC PGM=PGM01 //INFILE DD DSN=TEST.PAYROLL.DATA,DISP=SHR //SYSOUT SYSOUT=A //STEP02 EXEC PGM=PGM02 //INFILE DD DSN=TEST.PERSONEL.DATA,DISP=SHR Which change to STEP02 above will specify that STEP02 CANNOT be automatically restarted by an operator if that step fails during execution?
Choice 1 //STEP02 EXEC PGM=PGM02,AR=NS Choice 2 //STEP02 EXEC PGM=PGM02,RST=NOP Choice 3 //STEP02 EXEC PGM=PGM02,ARST=NOP Choice 4 //STEP02 EXEC PGM=PGM02,OP=NST Choice 5 //STEP02 EXEC PGM=PGM02,RD=NR
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Space Identifier (ASID)
What is the name of the job that has an address space identifier (ASID) of one?
dhs01
- Apr 15th, 2009
ASID 1 is generally assigned to the master scheduler. Most shops will have the basically the same first 30 or so ASID tasks.
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Creating model for gdg
Is it necessary to create a model for gdg using IEFBR14 utility after creating gdg, if yes why it is created.
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JCL SORT CARD to filter data
If you have 2 input files with redundant data. For example
INP1 INP2
A B
B D
C E
D F
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How will fetch records of INP1 which are present in INP2 to a new output file and also fetch the records which do not match in another output file.
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Describe the JOB statement, its meaning, syntax and significant keywords?
The JOB statement is the first in a JCL stream. Its format is // jobname, keyword JOB, accounting information in brackets and keywords, MSGCLASS, MSGLEVEL, NOTIFY, CLASS, etc.
kpguptha
- Aug 22nd, 2010
Need for job statement: To identify the job with job name and the person who submitted the job,specify which class the job is belonging to using class parameter ,specify how the output shoud be ...
Don Carey
- Jul 14th, 2005
Notify is misspelled in the answer.
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Describe the DD statement, its meaning, syntax and keywords?
The DD statement links the external dataset name (DSN) to the DDNAME coded within the executing program. It links the file names within the program code to the file names know to the MVS operating system. The syntax is // ddname DD DSN=dataset name. Other keywords after DSN are DISP, DCB, SPACE, etc.
dhs01
- Apr 15th, 2009
DD statement is the DATA DEFINITION Statement.It's function is to give a symbolic name to a file. This will allow a program to access a file through this name so that the file name may be cha...
Renuka Mudaliyar
- Apr 3rd, 2006
Its the Data Definition (DD) statement It should not exceed 8 charactersIt is normally the identifier name which we give in the cobol program to identify the that the trailing DSN is for the...
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If condition is given in job step, what about first step, whether the condition is checked for it or not? If checked then with which return code is it compared?
guraddiv
- Jan 5th, 2011
Coding COND parameter in the JOB card means whenever any of the steps inside the job satisfies the COND value, then all the steps following it are bypassed. Hence even though you c...
Lazar Kaplansky
- Sep 18th, 2006
COND= compares return-code from previous step(s) with a value; it does not make sense using COND= in first step of the job as the parameter will only be checked for correct syntax and ignored by the JES.
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Which is default record format(RECFM)?a)F b)FB c)V d)VB
AJAY
- Dec 19th, 2006
hi...... the default option is F OR FB both of them mean that t record is FIXED BLOCK ...
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What is the use of syscat
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