Bud Gobbel

• Feb 24th, 2023

Can JOBLIB and JCLLIB appear in the same JCL Job?

neha

• Oct 4th, 2007

Joblib is a default load?library for all the jobsteps while jcclib is the loadlib that contains catalogued procedures.

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Why should we go for generations in GDG when the members in PDS can do the same work?

Chan

• Sep 7th, 2019

Generation Data Groups (GDGs) are group of datasets related to each other by a common name. All datasets have the same name(GDG base and its relative number) and is easy to keeps track of adding new ...

selkum.r

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• Jan 13th, 2011

What is the difference between maintaining our accounts in notebook and MS-excel? Excel makes the job easy for us. The same thing is with GDG. If you are maintaining your employees records. Each month...

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Chan

• May 25th, 2019

1. Positional Parameters Should be coded in a specific sequence Separated by commas Omitted parameters indicated by a comma to indicate the positional nature Job statement consists of two positiona...

Ashish

• Feb 28th, 2018

M1[&Arg1,&Arg2,&Arg3] i.e marco declaration
{
ADD1 , &Arg1
ADD2 , &Arg2
ADD3 , &Arg3
}
MEND
M1 [DATA1 , DATA2 , DATA3 ] .


Syntax to use positional arguments
&Arg-Name,
Eg. &Arg1,

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I have 10 steps in my job, how can i execute second step without executing first step, without using restart and commenting first step?

dhin

• Sep 4th, 2017

Using IEBEDIT utility

Nagaraju

• May 23rd, 2017

Using COND Parameter, cond parameter coded on step1 in these ways COND=ONLY

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Indra kumar patle

• May 17th, 2017

Restart the job with step=step100

Priya

• Sep 14th, 2016

You can use restart option RESTART=100thStep-Name

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How do you verify whether a dataset is empty using a JCL?

serken

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• May 13th, 2017

In SORT (or SYNCSORT) only RC4 or RC16 are allowed for NULLOFL=
RC12 is not allowed

Nagaraju

• May 12th, 2017

Using IDCAMS along with PRINT parameter.
It returns 0 data available in file.
It returns 4 data not available in file

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sathish

• Jun 25th, 2016

CLASS parameter is used categorise is short or long run execution....
MSGCLASS is used to specific the the output device wher the SYSTEM MSG and JCL MSG is is printed

gandikotasiva

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• Apr 27th, 2012

CLASS parameter specifies weather it is a long or short running job,,, it has a range of A-Z, 0-9 A-------1MIN B-------5MIN .. MSGCLASS specifies the output device to which the messages are sent it ca...

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What is JES?Explain in detail about JES?What is the difference between JES2 and JES3?

santhosh s kumar

• Feb 17th, 2013

JES2 in this it will release the resource after completion every step execution that resource can be used by any other user.

JES3 it will release the resource only after the completion of all steps execution no other program can access that resource util the completion of exec.

monika samal

• May 1st, 2012

JES2 processing is considered to be independently controlled.
JES3 processing is considered to be centrally controlled..

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1.What is the difference between JCL and JES.?
2.What is the difference between VSAM and DB2?

rasheeed17

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• Jan 19th, 2012

JCL: JCL is a language, We write JOBs in JCL laguage that is understood by Mainframe and job is executed, space allocations & other resource allocation is done according to the keywords specified by ...

mohammadanis.jamadar

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• Oct 4th, 2011

JCL: is Job control Language.Through jcl we can decide what job has to be run what programs needs to be run.
JES: Job entry System : This will take care of the execution of the job . when a job is submitted it will allocate space for execution and will help in execution

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boddulasrikanth

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• Sep 3rd, 2010

GDG is a Generation Data Group which is having grouped related datasets chronologically or functionally. It is referenced with the versions those are absolute and relative. It is defined by idcams g...

nthayyuru

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• Mar 30th, 2009

GDG nothing but Generation Data Group, means data sets has been generated with version number.It will be referred as a dataset with version number then only we knows and identifying the dataset when i...

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memays

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• Feb 18th, 2009

The AMP= parameter is only used for VSAM files and mainly affects performance.When VSAM files are defined via the DEFINE CLUSTER statement using IDCAMS, certain parameters describe the physical format...

Sudak_2008

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• Oct 21st, 2008

Could you please tell why this AMP parameter is not always mandatory whenever we access a VSAM file? Because I sometimes see it is used with some VSAM files and sometimes not.

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