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Topic: Difference between JCL and a PROC |
John Corbin
Replies: 5
Views: 9485
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Forum: Job Control Language(JCL) Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 7:14 am Subject: Difference between JCL and a PROC |
iKnow,
JCL defines how a job is executed on the mainframe. A job may perform many steps or execute many programs in order to produce the requested information or output. If a segment of JCL is used r ... |
Topic: Copy Variable blocked File to Fixed block file. |
John Corbin
Replies: 3
Views: 3806
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Forum: Job Control Language(JCL) Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 2:50 pm Subject: Copy Variable blocked File to Fixed block file. |
My solution.. note that the source dataset was on tape. The source dataset was DB2 unload of a database table. Each record has the DB2 table ID as part of the record along with the VB blocking fact ... |
Topic: Copy Variable blocked File to Fixed block file. |
John Corbin
Replies: 3
Views: 3806
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Forum: Job Control Language(JCL) Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 1:43 pm Subject: Copy Variable blocked File to Fixed block file. |
Tried searching but I gues my search criteria was not clear..
Got it solved using PROCS
Thank you |
Topic: Copy Variable blocked File to Fixed block file. |
John Corbin
Replies: 3
Views: 3806
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Forum: Job Control Language(JCL) Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 9:26 am Subject: Copy Variable blocked File to Fixed block file. |
I have a file in VB format that I want to copy to FB file format. in addition I need to drop the first 2 characters so that the file starts in position 3 when opened.
Can anyone offer a way... ? |
Topic: Merging GDGs in JCL |
John Corbin
Replies: 2
Views: 5594
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Forum: Job Control Language(JCL) Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 1:20 pm Subject: Merging GDGs in JCL |
Currently I merge several gdg's using JCL like this:
//*
//STEP02 EXEC PGM=IEBGENER
//* ... |
Topic: Record layouts of REXX input files |
John Corbin
Replies: 2
Views: 1289
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Forum: TSO and ISPF Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 10:16 am Subject: Record layouts of REXX input files |
I should have thought of that.. thanks |
Topic: Record layouts of REXX input files |
John Corbin
Replies: 2
Views: 1289
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Forum: TSO and ISPF Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 9:55 am Subject: Record layouts of REXX input files |
HI..
I know in REXX that I have done my input files are structured so that a record has its individual parts separated by a ','.
Thus in your REXX you can code something like this:
DO K = 1 t ... |
Topic: Finding differeances between very large files |
John Corbin
Replies: 1
Views: 1184
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Forum: Utilities Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 9:24 am Subject: Finding differeances between very large files |
I have a situation that requires that I take 2 files ( both structured the same way ) and determine differences between them.
The differences include:
- added records ( records that are now in B ... |
Topic: Translating files from ASCII to EBCDIC and back |
John Corbin
Replies: 8
Views: 9299
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Forum: TSO and ISPF Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 3:01 pm Subject: Translating files from ASCII to EBCDIC and back |
Thanks for the mention of EZACIC04 and EZACIC05...
I cannot find these in a standard REXX user manual....
The application where I have to use is:
Reports are generated by a COGNOS tool of s ... |
Topic: Translating files from ASCII to EBCDIC and back |
John Corbin
Replies: 8
Views: 9299
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Forum: TSO and ISPF Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 11:19 am Subject: Translating files from ASCII to EBCDIC and back |
Someone in my team had brought up the idea of translating a file from ASCII to EBCDIC. The ASCII file is a file from a lan server.
After some thought I got tasked with this...
I have a high lev ... |
Topic: formatting decimal nembers as non decimal |
John Corbin
Replies: 5
Views: 2116
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Forum: TSO and ISPF Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 6:45 pm Subject: formatting decimal nembers as non decimal |
Thanks to both of you...
both suggestions are great... actually forgot about using the Translate function. |
Topic: Books on Easytrieve |
John Corbin
Replies: 3
Views: 1671
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Forum: Application Programming Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 9:31 pm Subject: Books on Easytrieve |
Anyone out there know of any Boks on easytrieve that are still in print/publicatoin ? |
Topic: formatting decimal nembers as non decimal |
John Corbin
Replies: 5
Views: 2116
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Forum: TSO and ISPF Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 8:54 pm Subject: formatting decimal nembers as non decimal |
I have dollar amounts of various sizes..
1234.87
2.87
32.99
as examples...
Ids there a quick way in REXX to reformat AMY dollar amount so they look like
123487
287
3299
essentially ... |
Topic: REXX SELECT and IF statements appear to be confilcting |
John Corbin
Replies: 1
Views: 1236
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Forum: TSO and ISPF Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 2:47 pm Subject: REXX SELECT and IF statements appear to be confilcting |
Found the trouble
There is no THEN DO allowed on the OTHERWISE statement... |
Topic: REXX SELECT and IF statements appear to be confilcting |
John Corbin
Replies: 1
Views: 1236
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Forum: TSO and ISPF Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 11:27 am Subject: REXX SELECT and IF statements appear to be confilcting |
I keep getting error mesages about unexpected THEN or ELSE in the follwing CODE
SELECT
WHEN PROVCODE.I = 'A' | PROVCODE.I = 'B' THEN DO
LINEC ... |
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