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[vanight]

Hello. I am new to this forum and new to COBOL and CICS. I know its a little off subject but doesnt seem to be anyone in the other headings today. I seem to learn best by finding the answer to a question and the reverse engineering how the answer was obtained. I would like some of you to take a shot at these questions with a quick explanation of your answer. I dont have much money and I am trying to find as much material for free online as I can. Also, is there a way to simulate the environment? Like CISCO has a router simulator. A list of commands with how they are used would be helpful if anyone knows of a good one............Vanight

Thanks for any help!! Here are the questions:

1. In CICS, ddname "File a" is pointing to VSAM.FILEA.CLUSTER. How would you change the ddname to point to VSAM.FILEB.CLUSTER?

2. The client asks for information in SSN-NO order. The VSAM file that will be used for input will not have duplicates and is laid out as follows:
EMPL-NO PIC X(10) PRIMARY KEY
SSN-NO PIC 9(9)
EMPL-NAME PIC X(25)

How would you accomplish this?

3. You have the same VSAM file as above. You want to retrieve the record just prior to the EMPL-NO of `2234444444' without reading the whole file. How do you do this?

4. You have a flat (sequential) file that needs to be used to load a VSAM file that has an Alternate index. With JCL how would you do this?

5. In a job you have 10 steps. You want to process steps 1-6 and steps 9 and 10, based on the return code from step 6 How would you achieve this?

[ofer71]

I think you need to read this manual.

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[vanight]

Thanks.