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Passing 500 Char Data thru JCL to a Program

 
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Rchilla
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 23, 2002 6:58 am    Post subject: Passing 500 Char Data thru JCL to a Program Reply with quote
I have a request to recieve 500 char data for a program in linkage section thru JCL. I would like to know the possible ways(and possible code) to recieve the data other than file processing technique. I know the way to pass the data from JCL thru PARM parameter but it is restricted to 100 chars(I suppose). ALso, SYSIN option has been tried.

Thanks for all your help.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 23, 2002 7:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Rchilla,

I don't think you can pass 500 characters as a parm thru JCL.You can define a seqfile for the parm values.

Code:

SELECT PARM-FILE         
       ASSIGN TO PARMFIL
       ORGANIZATION IS SEQUENTIAL.

FD  PARM-FILE
    RECORDING MODE F 
    LABEL RECORDS ARE OMITTED
    DATA RECORD IS PARM-REC. 

01  PARM-REC                    PIC  X(500).




Then in the procedure division read in this file and process accordingly.

Hope this helps...

cheers

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 23, 2002 7:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Your immediate response is highly appreciated

Thanq Kolusu.


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PostPosted: Mon Dec 23, 2002 11:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
If you still need to use linkage section to pass your 500 bytes data, check out this tip.
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