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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?

1 2475

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?

1215

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?

1056

What are the types of identifiers?

976

How can we override a file during runtime in rpg?

1153

What is ment by record level identifier?

1094

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

2407

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

1 2016

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 2382

What is file identifier where we can use?

1081

Explain mdt?

1080

What is open data path?

948

What is the primary file?

1064

What is the use of member in pf?

952

Last statement of any rpg program is lr?

1032

Un-Answered Questions { IBM AS400 }

how can you specify no duplicate key?

1109

How to add 99 menu (page down) option in menu creation..

2319

what are different types of substems?

2144

What is the use of limit sys?

How many maximum record format a logical file have?

943

what is the purpose of ovrdta and ovrata keywords ?

1447

what is *iso date format?

1018

what is the maximum number of files allowed in rpg?

1572

How Chain operation copies the record's data to the input buffer for the program?

1553

What is the difference between non-join logical files and join logical files?

1062

what is the version of os/400 that we have?

1560

what is the difference between *like and *namvar ?

2462

how do you read data area in an rpg program?

1745

define data structure?

1680

how many files can be defined in f specs?

2270

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