Calling a Main program from a COBOL in BATCH

Vjeya · Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 1:54 am

I am currently working a program(PGMA) wherein it should call a main program(PGMB) in it. This PGMB will accept a one INPUT FILE and ONE creates one output file.

PGMA has a cursor and for each row it will generate an input file for PGMB.
PGMB should be called for all the rows fetched by the cursor and generates one output file for each call.

PGMB is a standalone program. I heard like throuh tso commands in the PGMA I can make a call. But I am not clear how to allocate the input file for PGMB.

I would like ur to know ur suggestions and solutions for this.

Jeya

dick scherrer · Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 2:25 am

Hello and welcome to the forums,

Typically, the main prorgrm does the calling - it is not usually called.

In a normal cobol/batch execution, there is usually no need for tso commands.

How much cobol experience do yo have?

Please describe what kind pf process you need to support. If you will describe the required process, we may be able to offer suggestions. If you show some examples of your input and output(s), that will help.

Also, this appears to be more of a programming question than a jcl question and it you perfer, i will move it to COBOL. Just let me know.