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sachin_kaushik84

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 2:08 pm
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WHAT IS THE USE OF CONTROL CARD AND HOW IT IS CODED?
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ramsri

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 2:11 pm
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Hi,

I would like to tell you this that using CAPS in your post is not advisable and is not proper as well...........this sends the signals like you are shouting at others........

Thx.


a search on this forum would give you this........

Control Card
HTH


What is a control card?


Thanks.
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sachin_kaushik84

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 2:21 pm
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thnx sabbhaji for quick reply,

just to need a clarification on this control card is just to pass the value/instruction to the particular step or jcl?

Am i right?
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 4:43 pm
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rameshraj.satyam

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PostPosted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 11:49 am
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hi

Control card is a Dataset

you can give the input like..

in sas prg we are not giving the prg name.prg name given through dataset

ex: ns.input.dst(prg1)


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dick scherrer

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PostPosted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 12:25 pm
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Hello,

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Control card is a Dataset
A "control card" may be a dataset or it may be inline.

The use of the control card(s) is to provide run-time processing control information to the process that is being run. One example is sort control information that tells the sort which columns to operate on and what to do. Another example of "control cards" is the idcams statements to delete/define a vsam cluster.
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