Number of BYTES in DUMP

Swetalina · New User Joined: 11 Nov 2008 Posts: 30 Location: Bangalore

Can anyone please tell me how many BYTES a DUMP message '(100,dump)' contains? Is it 100 bytes?

dick scherrer · Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 8:29 am

Hello,

Where do you see this in jcl?

Please post a more complete example.

Swetalina · New User Joined: 11 Nov 2008 Posts: 30 Location: Bangalore

Hi,

I got this question in a test. The que was like this only:

What will be the number of BYTES in a DUMP message '(100,dump)' ?

dick scherrer · Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 9:23 am

Hello,

The only time i've seen something like this is to specify a user abend with a dump but that is in code not jcl.

Maybe it will be more familiar to someone else

Swetalina · New User Joined: 11 Nov 2008 Posts: 30 Location: Bangalore

So shall I mention this post in COBOL part?

dick scherrer · Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 9:47 am

Hello,

Swetalina · New User Joined: 11 Nov 2008 Posts: 30 Location: Bangalore

Hi Dick,

I have no idea but this was the question how many bytes will be in (100,DUMP). I got this question in one of my JCL test.

dick scherrer · Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 10:05 am

Hello,

The "IBM Manuals" link at the top of the page is our friend

Look here for complete info:
publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/handheld/Connected/BOOKS/iea2b680/28.8.2?

And yes, it is a jcl question

Not one i've ever used, but it is in the manual

Swetalina · New User Joined: 11 Nov 2008 Posts: 30 Location: Bangalore

Oh Dick excellent..

Thanks a lot...

So, (100,DUMP) = 100,000 bytes

I wrote 100 bytes in my test which was wrong

ok...

dick scherrer · Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 10:25 am

You're welcome - good luck

d

Terry Heinze · Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 7:06 am

No wonder I didn't recognize it -- it's a JES3 control statement parameter. I've only used JES2!