How to execute a particular step thru cobol program?

kolappan · New User Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 5

Hi,

My jcl have 5 steps. step01,step02,step03,etc..
In the first step 'step01' has some dsn is specified.

In cobol file section is using the step1's dsn as file1. If the file1 is reading sucessfully, I don't want go step2. I want go step3 directly. How to control the steps in jcl through cobol program?

Regards,
Kolappan

David P · Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 12:11 pm

Hi Kolappan,

I am not very sure by "If the file1 is reading successfully" but I believe
you can achieve what you want by using the special cobol register
RETURN-CODE to change the return code in any special case you want.

And then you can set the condition code for step 2 accordingly.

For ex.
In your cobol program Under any condition

If............
COMPUTE RETURN-CODE = 8

Then in your Job for second step cond parameter
can be coded as
COND=(8,EQ)

This way you can skip execution of step 2 by setting the return code in step 1 cobol program.

Hope this would help.

Thanks
David P.

kolappan · New User Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 5

Hi David,

Thanks now I am clear about it. Thanx for the reply. If you come across any more method to achive the same please let me know.

Regards,
Kolappan.