Passing a parm from jcl to a cobol program

venkateswara rao.muppa · New User Joined: 21 May 2007 Posts: 5 Location: hyderabad

hi,
could you please tell me the syntax of jcl to pass the value from jcl to cobol program through parm perameter.

murmohk1 · Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 12:44 pm

Venkat,

Why did you chose to continue with the old post (also which was not started by you)?

dick scherrer · Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 6:31 pm

Hello,

As suggested, please start a new topic when you have a new question.

There is much more in both the COBOL and JCL manuals (linked to via the "Manuals" link at the top of the web page), but basically, you need

Anuj Dhawan · Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 3:20 pm

Hi,

This may help further,
The parm receiving field and the length needs to be specified in linkage section. Also the procedure division should have the USING in it.

So for example if the JCL had something like this:

ug123 · New User Joined: 01 Mar 2007 Posts: 39 Location: Chennai

Hi all,

I have one problem in this regard..

I have a program which runs in production so i couldnt touch the code..

I need to send the data which is dynamic..

But through parm i can send only 255 characters..

Can anyone tell how to send the data more than 255 characters..

Thanks,
Ugandar

ug123 · New User Joined: 01 Mar 2007 Posts: 39 Location: Chennai

Sorry one small correction through parm we can send only 100 characters..

Thanks,
Ugandar

kgumraj2 · New User Joined: 01 Aug 2007 Posts: 42 Location: Hyderabad

Yes, you are correct through Parm we can send only 100 characters,

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http://ibmmainframes.com/viewtopic.php?t=22825&sid=ee4a173f1baf886cd661655113f662d0