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Suppose I have 3 jobs a b and c. I want to submit b after successful completion of a and want to submit c after successful completion of b. Without using job scheduler or job queue, how can I do that through cl program?

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We have job which is running as batch. It takes atleast 06 hours to complete tht job. But I wanna do tht job with in 3 hours?

1197

If my rpg program has a date field, what extra care I have to take while compiling that rpg program? If the file is keyed and I have declared the file as well as key list properly in my program. Still am getting an error message like "chain/reade operation is not allowed" what may be the case?

1045

What are the types of identifiers?

968

How can we override a file during runtime in rpg?

1136

What is ment by record level identifier?

1085

What is difference between bind by copy and bind by reference?

2393

Assume my file has 100 records and I want to see only first 10 records. Is this possible through lf?

1 1999

Suppose my file has 10 fields and I want to make the 2nd field zeros in all records. And assume I have millions of records and I dont want to read each record and update the desired field with 0. Any other way to do this in one step operation?

1 2365

What is file identifier where we can use?

1071

Explain mdt?

1065

What is open data path?

939

What is the primary file?

1054

What is the use of member in pf?

940

Last statement of any rpg program is lr?

1026

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a multiple format logical file is also known as?

1003

how many files can be defined in f specs?

2249

what is the purpose of ovrdta (override data) keyword?

1721

What are the record format field mapping options in cpyf?

965

How can we arrange duplicate records in a file?

1016

what is a query can be run in which mode?

1250

What is data structure in as400? What is the use of data structure?

1021

What is the use of jdftval in as400?

1343

Difference Between Call & Sbmjob?

1226

what is a program described file in rpg?

1647

Where the QTEMP library will get created? if the the answer is QSYS, then howcome more than one job can create same library name(QTEMP) in QSYS? what is the uniqueness of QTEMP? For example, run the below command in different workstation WRKOBJ QSYS/QTEMP And take 8 in the option to check the description. both will have different info. so where(which LIB) exactly the QTEMP is stored?

8437

what does the opcode free do?

1864

What is file information data structure(infds) in as400?

1419

What is output procedure?

934

maximum number of subfiles that can be active for a single file is?

1620

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