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what r the types of job control statements?

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what is the meaning of keyword in jcl?what is is opposite?

4 8446

describe the job statement, its meaning,syntax and significant keywords?

1 4762

describe the exec statement,its meaning ,syntax and keywords?

3 7754

describe the dd statement,its meaning,syntax and keywords?

1 4166

what is the restart?hopw it is invoked?

1 5051

explain concatinating datasets?

1 4894

what is pupose and meaning of the REGION keyword and what jcl statement is it associated with?

1 5838

what is the difference between static call and dynamic call?

1 22475

can we bowse or edit the GDG dataset if it is a tape entry?

4 9942

what is the purpose of SYSOUT parameter in the DD statement?

1 10278

what is a MODELDSCB?

1 4673

i want to see the jobs in skeleton queue in diff region. (eg. 7 regions are running means , i want to see all the jobs in 7 regions which are in skel queue using 1 command)

1 4746

I have 10 steps, I want to run STEP1 TO STEP4 then I should not run STEP5 and STEP6. Aganin I want to execute from STEP7 to STEP10. ONLY using CONDITION CODES how can we execute this process? 1. Where we can set cond codes for STEP5 and STEP6? 2. How can we execute remaining steps from STEP7 to STEP10?

2 9294

What will happen if we write two STOP RUN's in a COBOL program?

Satyam,

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what is DD statement is used in JCL?

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I have a cobol db2 program(PGM A) where other program (PGM B) will call this program and passes some 50 fields data to PGM A. PGM A has some layout in which it receives the data from PGM B. And this layout has been copied in the linkage section pf PGM A. After getting the data, PGM A writes the data in a flat file in the same layout which it receives from PGM B. PGM B is a simple COBOL pgm. Please provide a JCL to run these programs.

2363

List in order the hierarchical levels of jcl?

1114

What is the purpose of dd?

1245

How do you overcome this limitation ?

1209

What do you understand by the term job time – out and how can you overcome that?

1035

What is the format of comment statement?

1229

What is the difference between the positional and keyword parameters? Give examples.

1271

Explain the purpose of dd * statement in jcl?

1076

how you can direct the data to spool using SYSOUT option?

1466

when can a job time-out occur? How to overcome that?

1296

How to pass data to a program that is coded in an exec statement?

1342

How does jcl specify the job to the operating system?

1250

What do we mean by 'Virtual storage' for a dataset and for a JOBSTEP ? What is the significance of the following statement for a programmer 'Virtual storage results in program addresses being independent of the addresses that actually exist in a computer' ?

2032

Which statement is used to identify the private libraries in job?

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