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How do you code Cobol to access a parameter that has been
defined in JCL?

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How do you code Cobol to access a parameter that has been defined in JCL?..

Answer / shan

Ff it is SYSIN input in JCL,
ACCEPT <VARIABLE> FROM SYSIN
If it parameter is give through PARM, then COBOL program
should recieve through LINKAGE SECTION

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How do you code Cobol to access a parameter that has been defined in JCL?..

Answer / lynn ertell

Apparently you cannot use the ACCEPT verb against the
LINKAGE parameters if you are already using SYSIN.
It's either one or the other but not both.

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How do you code Cobol to access a parameter that has been defined in JCL?..

Answer / harish

environemnt division

file1 assign to ddname
file2 assign to ddname

for this in JCL //DDNAME DD DSN.......

LINKAGE SECTION
01 LN-LEN PIC S9(4) COMP.
01 X PIC X
01 Y PIC X
IN JCL THROUGH PARM (MAX 1 TO 100 CHAR)

procedure division.

ACCEPT X
ACCEPT Y.

IN JCL THROUGH SYSIN DD*


pls correct me if anything wrong

HARISH POOMGAME SHIVAPPA(hassan,karnataka)
NIIT TECHNOLOGY
KOLKATA

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