kckinney

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• May 22nd, 2007

COND is outdated. RTM and use IF THEN.

SWATI

• Apr 19th, 2007

1) The COND specifies condition for execution of subsequent job step depend on the return code from previous steps. 2) COND Can be coded in both JOB and EXEC statements. But COND written in EXEC stmt ...

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Can anyone pls explain in detail the use of LIB statements like JOBLIB,STEPLIB,JCLLIB,PROCLIB.... as i know where to use these but not clear on the purpose of using....

kckinney

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• May 22nd, 2007

Can you specify which level of operating system you're using? It varies based on the answer.

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kckinney

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• May 22nd, 2007

The most common way is to store the desired return code in reg 15 and return from the program.

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kckinney

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• May 22nd, 2007

Let's clarify things first. You probably *have* access to delete the dataset or your would have got an S913 or an ICH408I error.Someone else has the dataset in exclusive mode. There could be many, m...

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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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kckinney

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• May 22nd, 2007

VSAM return codes are documentted in the IDC3009I error message. There are too many to memorize. Either print it off or keep it in a file on our PC. Anyone working with VSAM or VSAM cats will reter to it often.

avrkrishna

• Apr 29th, 2007

You are trying to open an EMPTY VSAM file and getting return code - 160REPRO INFILE(INPUT) OUTFILE(OUTPUT)IDC3300I  ERROR OPENING USERID.TEST.ESDSIDC3351I ** VSAM OPEN RETURN CODE IS 160IDC0005I ...

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kckinney

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• May 22nd, 2007

Sort it, dummying out SORTOUT

P.Karthikkumar

• Jan 10th, 2007

//JOBNAME...//STEP1     EXEC    PGM=FILEAID//SYSOUT       DD  SYSOUT=*//SYSPRINT    DD   SYSOUT=*//DD1&nb...

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kckinney

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• May 22nd, 2007

Nearly every error is a failure to RTFM.

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kiran pathak

• Apr 30th, 2007

By using the NOTIFY Parameter in a job statement, It sends a Message to the user about the status of job .

kanchan

• Mar 18th, 2007

Yes it tells the id user whose id is being used whether the job is completed sucessfully or not.

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swati

• Apr 19th, 2007

There are two types of SORT, one is DFSORT and other is SYNCSORT . The basic cmds in both the products are same.ICETOOL provides a lot more than what SORT can offer and it comes with DFSORT product. S...

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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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bhd8ball

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• Mar 22nd, 2007

You can open a vsam dataset that has NO records in it if you initialize it with IDCAMS.Create it.Copy a 'blank' record into it.Delete the record (with IDCAMS)Now it can be opened sucessfully in OR output.  You may get a '4' condition code if you open it input.....

kanth

• Feb 22nd, 2007

It is not possible to open the empty vsamdata set.if u try to open tht   it displays  lastcc-12.

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MVS now allows for an IF bracketed by an END IF around any job step to replace the COND= syntax. Again, if the IF statement is true, the step is bypassed.

Guest

• Jan 23rd, 2007

if it's true you fall thru (IBM wonked this up)://*--------------------------------------------------------------------//*     TERMINATE IF BAD CC FROM STEP10   ...

Anil Kumar Guggilam

• May 27th, 2006

Could you please give me the syntax... thanks

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P.Karthikkumar

• Jan 10th, 2007

You can restart like this. //JOBNAME JOB NOTIFY=&SYSUID,RESTART=JOBSTEPNAME.PROCSTEPNAME.Thanks&RegardsKarthikkumar.P

P.Karthikkumar

• Jan 10th, 2007

Hi,For that u have to use in jobcard like this//JOBNAME  JOB NOTIFY=&SYSUID, RESTART=JOBSTEPNAME.PROCSTEPNAMEThanks&RegardsKarthikkumar.P

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DCB stands for data control block; it is a keyword for the DD statement used to describe datasets. Keywords associated with it are BLKSIZE, DEN, LRECL and RECFM.

SANGRAMKC

• Dec 27th, 2006

DCB parameter is used to provide file characteristics to use in completing Data control Block(DCB) for a datasetSyntax1. DCB=(subparameter,subparameter,..)2.DCB=dsname3.DCB=*.DDname4.DCB=*.stepname.dd...

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AJAY

• Dec 19th, 2006

hi...... the default option is F OR FB both of them mean that t record is FIXED BLOCK ...

keerthi kiran

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• Oct 9th, 2006

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Hervey

• Oct 26th, 2006

The value give is normally a number; usually 01-15 with 01 being the lowest and 15 being the highest. Most installations do not allow this parm to be overriden. So, don't be surprised if your job doesn't do anything.

Basu

• Jul 12th, 2006

Hi,What kind of value is actually given in the PERFORM parameter? Could you explain it?

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kvskris

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• Oct 26th, 2006

//XXXXXXXW JOB   XXXXXXX,AAAA.A.A,CLASS=G,MSGCLASS=1,NOTIFY=XXXXXXX//S010IEBC EXEC  PGM=IEBCOMPR,ACCT=PJ00000000//     INCLUDE   MEMBER=@BATCHS//SYSIN ...

anil

• Jun 16th, 2006

hi, sysut1 for first dataset. sysut2 for second dataset.

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vinod

• Aug 31st, 2006

InitiatorInitiator is a Special address Space to which batch jobs are mapped during execution.Every job must be mapped to an initiator in order to execute. Each initiator is associated with one or mor...

hari

• Jun 15th, 2006

Initiator is a special address register.

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srilkrishy

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• Aug 25th, 2006

Hi,Just thought of adding few more points.ICEMAN is the IBM's DFSORT tool.You can use the same name for the SYNCSORT (Product of SYNCINC) as well.The SYNCSORT guys have created synonims for most ...

Enzo

• Jul 17th, 2006

This job copy a file named SORTIN to file SORTOUT.ICEMAN is a SORT program whith a lot of features, SYSIN is the input of control statements.The control statements "SORT FIELDS=COPY"  indicates to ICEMAN to only copy the input statement to the output statement whithout perform any sort.

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