How to Give comments in Control Card

Farooq · New User Joined: 24 Nov 2006 Posts: 15 Location: Chennai

How to Give comments in Control Card say Sort, Repro etc...

ofer71 · Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 3:33 pm

It depends on the utility.

For example: SORT accepts asterisk in the first column as comment.

You should read the relevant documentation of each utility.

O.

William Thompson · Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 3:38 pm

Or you can always write comments on the EOD card, after the "/*" and at least one space.

Farooq · New User Joined: 24 Nov 2006 Posts: 15 Location: Chennai

Hi All,

Thanks for Inputs!

Farooq

muthukannan · New User Joined: 03 Aug 2006 Posts: 42 Location: Chennai

Hi,

After your jcl statement give 1 space and type your comments.

Correct me if am worng.

Thank you,
MK

prafull · New User Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 48

MK, u r right 2 !

ofer71 · Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 4:17 am

muthukannan - this is true for JCL, not for all input cards (although most of utilities indeed use this method).

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muthukannan · New User Joined: 03 Aug 2006 Posts: 42 Location: Chennai

Hi Ofer71,
Thanks for your reply.
Can you give some examples which will not come in that category?

Thank you,
MK

ofer71 · Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 8:17 pm

muthukannan -

IDCAMS, USPERC, SDSF (ISFAFD).

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mmwife · Super Moderator Joined: 30 May 2003 Posts: 1592

Most of the DB2 utils (SPUFI, etc.) use -- in col 1 for comments.