Answer / guest

Instream data follows this card and is terminated when
followed by a card containing // or /* in columns 1 and 2.

Answer / sariputi

It is one of the DD statement,through which we can give
the instream Data(Input)required for the job.


EXAMPLE:

//SYSIN DD *
COPY I=DD1,O=DD2
/*

How to find in aparticular step how many versions a paricular gdg base have?

4 Answers   TCS,

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I HAVE A SEQUENTIAL FILE CONTAINING ONE RECORD IN WHICH I HAVE ONE FIELD AS CUSTOMER IDENTITY NUMBER FIELD WHICH IS A SIGNED FIELD. HOW TO SEQUENTIALLY INCREMENT THIS FIELD USING OVERLAY PARAMETER?.

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I want to JCL sort for Non-COMP and COMP-3 fields SORT FIELDS=(1,5,A,6,11,A,12,11,A,19,1,A,20,1,A),FORMAT=BI,EQUALS Length of comp bytes is 11 bytes which start at 6byte and 12 byte considering 11 bytes in comp-3 is 6 bytes. Can anyone tell if the above sort work SORT FIELDS=(1,5,A,6,6,A,12,6,A,19,1,A,20,1,A),FORMAT=BI,EQUALS does not works OK

0 Answers   IBM,

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How to submit multiple jobs. These jobs are members in PDS. The second job should run if the first job runs successfully and so on.

1 Answers  

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What statement marks the beginning of a job step; assigns a name to the step; identifies the program or catalogued or in-stream procedure to be executed in the step?

0 Answers  

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WORKING-STORAGE SECTION. 01 GROSS-PAY. 05 BASIC-PAY PIC 9(5). 05 ALLOWENCES PIC 9(3). PROCEDURE DIVISION. MOVE 1000 TO BASIC-PAY. MOVE 250 TO ALLOWENCES. DISPLAY GROSS-PAY. STOP RUN. 77 W-A PIC 9(3)V99 VALUE 23.75 77 W-B PIC ZZ9V99 VLAUE 123.45 after the statement MOVE W-A TO W-B what will be W-B's value? a.123.75 b.b23.75 (where b indicates space) c.023.75 d.invalid move

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What is the significance of addrspc parameter in the exec statement?

0 Answers  

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I have 5 generations in my GDG. How do I code in the JCL to consider all the 5 versions of the GDG ?

5 Answers   Xansa,

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When should DISP=MOD is used?

6 Answers   TCS,

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which parameter is used to check the syntax of a jcl without executing it?

0 Answers   IBM,

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How to skip first step of a job? Can we use COND on the first step?

3 Answers   iNautix,

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What is the use of DUMMY statement in the JCL? What is the use of DUMMY Utility in the JCL?

12 Answers   Convergys,

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