How to pass parm parameter to COBOL program

Rudraraju · New User Joined: 18 Jul 2006 Posts: 1

Hi,

can you any one help me , i want to pass data like (A or B or C or D... like this) thru parm and in cobol i want to check in procedure division if A goto para-100 else B goto para-200 like , insted of this how can i code evaluate ...

Raj

parikshit123 · Active User Joined: 01 Jul 2005 Posts: 269 Location: India

Hi,

shreevamsi · Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 4:23 pm

hI,

If i understood your requirement, You need to Pass the Parm to cobol program eitehr A or B or C.

There are 2 ways to pass the Para to the Program.

The First is use PARM='A' in the JCL
//COBOLPGM EXEC PGM=PGM
// PARM=('A')

or

pass the Param value thru SYSIN as

//SYSIN DD *
A
/*
//Input ...........

You just choose either of the methods.
Please be free if still not clear with this..

~Vamsi

creator.abhishek · New User Joined: 07 May 2006 Posts: 32 Location: Pune

hello,

u can pass the value into cobol pragram by giving parm parameter like
//step1 exec pgm=pgm1,parm='xyz'
//...........

that xyz value would be recieve in linkage section of cobol program..

Muthukumar.PLindia · New User Joined: 03 Jul 2006 Posts: 51 Location: Chennai

IF we are passing parm from JCL to cobol the linkage section should be coded like this

linkage section
01 ls-var
03 filler pic x(02)
03 ls-parm pic clause

Is it like first 2 bytes will store the length of the parm variable?