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jasorn
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Hello,
I want to pass single quotes in the parm for a cobol program. Can you do that? If so, what is the syntax?
Here is a version of what I want to pass.
pgm=program1,parm=('aberh '01', YHOU TO') |
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 Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 8:21 am Post subject: Re: How do you pass a single quote as in linkage? |
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gcicchet
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Hi,
I think this should work
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PARM=('ABERH ''01'', YU TO')
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gcicchet
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Hi,
I should have said my test works.
Gerry |
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mmwife
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Hi jasorn,
Can you show us what you want to "see" in the parm field of the COBOL pgm?
How many quotes and/or commas do you want to see and where? |
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jasorn
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| gcicchet wrote: |
Hi,
I think this should work
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PARM=('ABERH ''01'', YU TO')
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Gerry |
Thanks. This is what I needed. Worked great. |
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jasorn
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| mmwife wrote: |
Hi jasorn,
Can you show us what you want to "see" in the parm field of the COBOL pgm?
How many quotes and/or commas do you want to see and where? |
I wanted the cobol field to look like this: "ABERH '01', YUTO" The 2 single quotes in a row worked just fine. |
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mytags
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Hi
As my knowledege for passing Parameters from Jcl to Cobol we need to declare the length filed and corresponding data filed i mean x()field in the Linkage section of the Cobol, But the declaration of the length filed is must because system will consider the first field as a length filed so it will cause data truncation.
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dick scherrer
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Hello,
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| But the declaration of the length filed is must because system will consider the first field as a length filed so it will cause data truncation. |
I believe this is somewhat misleading. The first feld defined is where the system places the length discovered at run-time (i.e. PARM-LTH). As long as the parm data field(s) are defined properly, there will be no truncation. |
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mmwife
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Hi jasorn,
Assuming there's a space required after the "H" and before the "Y", gcicchet's solution should do the trick.
Have you tried it?. Let us know the results. |
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jasorn
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mmwife,
I already posted that it worked...twice actually  |
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