Mehul Patel

• Dec 23rd, 2022

It does not work with SORT/SYNCSORT. It completes with RC=0 even if the input file is empty. Try to test it and surprise yourself. Happy learning!

KRISHNAMOHAN

• Jul 12th, 2019

HERE IF THE INPUT FILE DSNNAME IS DYNAMIC. Means I need to perform this step for 30 files . How??

Answer Question  Select Best Answer

NJ

• Aug 7th, 2016

Could you please elaborate more on how to check error record and skip for SOC7. Is there quick solution to skip these records

gurukanth

• Sep 4th, 2015

Hi Srinivasulu. you are right. Also, you can find the error record. you can get the error record from ABENDAID. Search for Current record in ABENDAID and locate that record in Input file. In productio...

Answer Question  Select Best Answer

I have 3 files . 2 files have millions of records.These 2 files have one ( empnumber) common record field. i want to put those records in 3rd file , such that which records having same number in key field (empnumber)in these two files ?

Jitendra Kumar Rathour

• Oct 17th, 2011

It will be done by the ICETOOL and the DFSORT...............

AJAY KUMAR ANDE

• Aug 23rd, 2011

using cobol we can perform TAKE TWO INPUT FILES, AND ONE OUTPUT FILE, READ TWO FILES, APPLY 'IF' CONDITION ,IF IT MATCHES WRITE INTO OUTPUT FILE."cobol fd in-file1 01 rec1 02 s...

Answer Question  Select Best Answer

kautuk

• Nov 21st, 2016

It was going to be achieved by IEBEDIT utility program. You can include the step for which you want to run with respect to multiple steps and if you also want to exclude any specific step in the JCL y...

praveen_s

 Profile Answers by praveen_s Questions by praveen_s

• Apr 5th, 2012

Yes.. we can exec a particular job using IKJEFT01 utility. A single job can have any number of jobs and 1 job can trigger another job..

Answer Question  Select Best Answer

Kirthika

• Mar 3rd, 2016

1.2 bytes 2.Null Indicator is one statement to specify the value of null and not null ..three possible null indicator values 0 - not null which is zero -1 - null -2 - it can be any data Example o...

chandan saha

• Sep 3rd, 2015

1. It will contains 2 bytes. 2. Null means the field type is defined but its empty. The field does not contain any value. If any field defined as not null means we cant keep that field without any val...

Answer Question  Select Best Answer

pradeep

• Dec 2nd, 2014

PARM parameter is a positional in EXEC statement. where it is used to the pass the values or data to COBOL thru JCL.Max of 100 characters and for the storage it takes extra 4 bytes.Totally 104 bytes.Please correct me if m wrong.

pradeep

• Dec 2nd, 2014

Unit is keyword parameter used in DD statement.It is an storage unit where the data has reside either in DASD or SYSDA.UNIT=SYSDA,SYSDS,DASD

Answer Question  Select Best Answer

Jack Hartley

• Sep 12th, 2016

FBA = Fixed Block Attribute. The mainframe uses EBCIDIC not ANSI. Attribute means it has print attributes in column 1.

Chandan Saha

• Mar 31st, 2015

Fixed Block Architecture is an IBM term for hard disk drive in which each addressable block on the disk size has the same size

Answer Question  Select Best Answer

Read Best Answer

Editorial / Best Answer

VInodReddy  

 Profile Answers by VInodReddy Questions by VInodReddy

• Member Since Mar-2006 | Mar 9th, 2006

---

SOC4 abend may be due to the following reasons.

1.Missing SELECT statement ( During Compile time)

2.Bad Subscript/Index

3.Read/Write attempt to unopened file

4.Move data to/from unopened file

5.Missing parameters in called subprogram

SOC7 abend may be due to the following reasond

1.Numeric Operation on Non-numeric data

2.Coding past the maximum allowed subscript.

3.Un-initialize working storage.

Please let me know if there more reasons for the above mentioned abends.

Chinmay

• Aug 10th, 2011

Soc4-Protection exception, usually caused by an invalid index and subscript to an array

soc7-Caused due to bad data, in case of numeric data we are moving non-numeric,in case of numeric comparison we are finding space

chaitanyanavakoti19

 Profile Answers by chaitanyanavakoti19 Questions by chaitanyanavakoti19

• Nov 17th, 2008

SOC4 means subscript being out of range. This is because of compiler option.Default is nossrange we have to change it for ssrange....SOC7 means uninaialized numeric field. For SOC7 if we are doing numeric opretion which field is defined as non-numeric.

Improve Answer

Dhanasekaran

• Jun 12th, 2019

Group of JCL statements together and giving them a name is a procedure. Procedures are the pre-written segment of codes consisting of one or more JOB steps. By using procedures, the amount of JCL codi...

PADMA

• Apr 23rd, 2019

Can you please explain what is proc and why it is needed in writing code

Answer Question  Select Best Answer

Pal

• Jun 20th, 2007

Endevor is a Version Control Tool. Through this tool we can get the code from production side and do the changes in code. It will create a version for the changes program. Through that we can easily f...

Arnab

• Feb 8th, 2007

Endevour is a version control tool rite.
try to type TSO ENDVR....then you get 4 options
1.DVLP
2.UAT
3.PROD
4.ARCHIVE
you may get more options depending on which type of tool your using

Answer Question  Select Best Answer

Read Best Answer

Editorial / Best Answer

Answered by: Nitin Dobhal

• Feb 14th, 2007

---

Infoman is a tool, which is used for reporting purposes. Some organizanations use it as a tool to manage all the phases of SDLC, right from the customer's requirements.

Marta Cortes

• Jan 13th, 2012

Is there a way to reduce email notification from infoman? For example, get notifiy without receiving a bunch of emails everyday?

arjun

• Sep 14th, 2011

It is the one of the ticketing tool

Improve Answer

maya007

 Profile Answers by maya007 Questions by maya007

• Dec 12th, 2008

The temporary datasets are created by using the option ===>//DD1 DD DSN=&&TEMP,DISP=(NEW,PASS,DELETE).The PASS is used instead of CATLG, because we need the dataset only for the temporary purpose. Th...

prab99

 Profile Answers by prab99 Questions by prab99

• Oct 10th, 2008

Just to elaborate on what others have said - Small temporary datasets can be directed to VIOs (Virtual I/O using memory) to elminate most of the delays associated with DASDs.

Answer Question  Select Best Answer

tag_tushar

 Profile Answers by tag_tushar Questions by tag_tushar

• Oct 6th, 2010

Name of Jcl to be submitted by COBOL program: ABC.XYZ.JCL1COBOL program Name: JCLCOBID DIVISION.PROGRAM-ID. 'JCL-COBOL'.ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.INPUT-OUTPUT SECTION.FILE-CONTR...

senthil.ads

 Profile Answers by senthil.ads Questions by senthil.ads

• Apr 29th, 2009

Let us the program is TEST and JCL you want to submit from program is A.B.C(MEM).//STEP1    EXEC  PGM=TEST//INPUT    DD      DSN=A.B.C(MEM)/...

Answer Question  Select Best Answer

How to change the key field in a VSAM file?

velu

• Sep 13th, 2015

VSAM files Key definition can be changed. But, you have to delete the vsam file and define it with again with same name (index) and the new values in KEY option.

suvendra mishra

• Jun 26th, 2015

You can use ALTER command

//sysin DD *
ALTER (vsam dataset) -
addressspace(n) -
cisz(4096) -
key(6,0)

Answer Question  Select Best Answer

How to concatenate 1000 gdg versions?

Ram

• Mar 15th, 2017

GDG limit is 255 gerations only
There no point we concatenation of 1000 versions as when it reaches 256 first generation automatically deleted.

Pratap Kumar Dalbehera

• Oct 26th, 2016

Now GDGE is the extended version of GDG which allows upto 999 versions and you can give the base name concatenate all GDG versions into one file

Answer Question  Select Best Answer

Keerthi

• Jun 14th, 2007

RACF is Resource Access Control Facilty. It is used for logging access violations, authenticating users/groups and protecting access to sub-systems

YogeshTheDevil

 Profile Answers by YogeshTheDevil Questions by YogeshTheDevil

• Dec 18th, 2006

Have heard about two kind of products:1. CA-Top Secret2. IBM RACF

Answer Question  Select Best Answer

PK.Ganapathy

• Jan 7th, 2015

There are multiple utilities. Personally, I use SORT with SORTIN to include the 2 GDGs, and the SORTOUT with the output GDG. Your SYSIN will be SORT FIELDS=COPY"jcl //SORTIN DD DIS...

vinod.thete

 Profile Answers by vinod.thete Questions by vinod.thete

• Aug 31st, 2013

we can achieve using ICEGENER Utility also "jcl //step EXEC PGM = ICEGENER //SYSUT1 DD DSN=AISSTMP.MILN.TEST(0), // DISP=SHR // DD DSN=AISSTMP.MILN...

Answer Question  Select Best Answer

memays

 Profile Answers by memays Questions by memays

• Nov 12th, 2007

Technically, an External sort is more efficient and can utilize I/O slighltly better than an internal sort, however in a typical environment, files are sorted so they can be input to another program w...

manoj

• Sep 28th, 2006

 There are two ways to do sorting :  1. Cobol program - sort statement2. using JCL  sorting using cobol prog called as internal sort and sorting using jcl called as external sort.  ...

Answer Question  Select Best Answer

P_KARTHIKKUMAR

 Profile Answers by P_KARTHIKKUMAR Questions by P_KARTHIKKUMAR

• Jan 10th, 2007

Sorry in the above post i have mentioned DISP=SHR for SORTOUT. But it should be DISP=(NEW, CATLG,DELETE) instead of DISP=SHRThanks & RegardSKarthikkumar.P

P_KARTHIKKUMAR

 Profile Answers by P_KARTHIKKUMAR Questions by P_KARTHIKKUMAR

• Jan 10th, 2007

Both are nothing but flat files. You can use PGM=SORT in EXEC statement and in sysin you can use sort fields=copy. For example.//JOBNAME ....//STEP1        ...

Answer Question  Select Best Answer

How can we pass values from COBOL to JCL?

mannurusrinivasulareddy

 Profile Answers by mannurusrinivasulareddy Questions by mannurusrinivasulareddy

• Mar 15th, 2012

We can pass values from COBOL to jcl is only through Files
through return-code we can pass only return code through COBOL to jcl

synt:- Move 16 to Return-code and this can be access in jcl through cond parameter of the jcl step.

madhavi

• Jan 19th, 2012

The above 2 ways are to send data from JCL to COBOL not from COBOL to JCL

Answer Question  Select Best Answer