Answer / guest

Libraries are of three types.
1.Sytem Libraries: SUCH AS SYS1.LINKLIB
2.Private Libraries: SPECIFIED IN A JOBLIB OR STEPLIB DD
STATEMENTS.
3.Temporary Libraries: CREATED IN A PREVIOUS STEP OF THE JOB.

Answer / varun vittal

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hi,i have joined in mainframe course recently. ihave a doubt ragarding restart parameter.what is d use of it. and what is d syntax for it. any one give me d answer pls.

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Are all (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) of the below are VALID to reference a temporary dataset ? STEP2 DD1 DD DSN = &&TEMP STEP3 DD2 DD (i) DSN = TEMP (ii) DSN = *.TEMP (iii) DSN = *.STEP1.DD1 (iv) DSN = *.STEP1.DD1.ONE

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How can you trap abends in the JCL?

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i have records from 1 t0 100 . i need to open records from 10 to 18 and change the values in tht ? how can i do tht ?

2 Answers   Syntel,

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Is there GOTO and SWITCH-CASE available in JCL ? Is IF-THEN-ELSE available in JCL also just like it is available for VSAM datasets under Model Commands category ?

1 Answers   IBM,

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I have an job having three job steps.Suppose i want to call a pgm in step2 and aproc in step3.How to write the code?

2 Answers   IBM,

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If a JOBSTEP abends, AND without using COND also, all the subsequent steps execute, then what is the use of using EVEN ? Why do we use EVEN when without it also all the JOBSTEPs execute ?

2 Answers   IBM,

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What is use of restart and how to use it?

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

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Min no of member?s (PDS) in one directory block?

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if we compile the cobol+ db2 program now ofter 5 years we need to compile again?

1 Answers   TCS,

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My Question is 1. How to cound no. of records in JCL. Please explain with an example. 2. How to execute only odd steps in JCL? I know EDIT TYPE = Inculde, Step Name = 1,3,5 and COND code for all even step. Anyone knows other than this.

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