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I have to standardize some 700+ jobs and procedures for my application. I need to get a before and after listing of the completely expanded jcl without doing an actual execution. cant for the life o ...

glad I could give for once instead of always taking Very Happy

Kolusu,

I did use 3.3 initially, but I wanted to be able to do it repetitively. i'm working up a script and i gotta go back to square one frequently.

But actually, the latest updates to IEBCO ...

Can someone help me with the syntax of this? I need to copy all the members that start with prefix OS from one pds (that has a lot more than OS*) to a pds that will only have OS members. I cant seem ...

This is brilliance and awesome... I was doing with two steps, 1st sum the value and second step using join key... never had a thought to use same input file.

Great idea..

Thank you very much.
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you fellows are so patient with beginners. there is a special place in heaven for you.

oh, cool, that makes it look much better.

dang, i thought i was being so thorough in my posting. I was getting an error saying that my reformat needed RDW. ( i had thought the F1:1 would work as well). but when I specified REFORMAT FIELDS= ...

I have searched and read the application programmers guide and I still don't get what I'm doing wrong.

I have two variable length files, IN1 and IN2. Key field is 15 bytes long starting in 15 and ...

thanks fellows, that's awesome. now I can see it clearly and if i ever need to do that, it's here for all perpetuity.

Ok, I did the coding. It works, thank you again.

would you be inclined to post your COBOL solution? perhaps just the pertinent snippets.

Thanks Kolusu. I've long been aware of the manipulation in a working storage array, but the problem has been around so long, (everybody in the insurance or public assistance arena has to wrestle with ...

i dont think i answered the question right. if there are two policies and the end date of one and the start date of the other are one day apart, then they are considered 'contiguous', i.e. there neve ...

Whew! maybe that's why it's not readily apparent to me. I need the 'tricky' answer.

Its not always a full month of coverage. the begin and end dates can be any calendar date, just happens that ...

do you mean what datatype? they are datatype 'DATE'. is that the question?