Error in Run jcl

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 1:53 pm

I do not think that I could exhibit rudeness required to achieve a level Ankoo deserves for

changing jcl on the fly and complaining about errors
not bothering to look in the manuals
posting truncated messages

It is obvious why he asks his questions in an anonymous internet forum
instead of his peers/co-workers.
They have undoubtedly had enough of his apathetic efforts of self-enlightenment,
inability to grasp elemental concepts
and general obliviousness to his actions.

Robert Sample · Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 4:12 pm

ankoo, since you did not provide the full statements (there is more to the right on the SYSOUT screen), there's no way anybody can help you. The file status code will tell you precisely what the problem is -- and there's even a sticky on the COBOL forum to take you directly to the file status codes.

ankoo · New User Joined: 12 Jun 2010 Posts: 31 Location: India

I got it the file status code was 35 and I corrected it by usinf File Status after the select statement

But Still not able to solve the problem of using two files, by using the following code the variable is not picking up the values so it is showing no output!

expat · Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 5:14 pm

PeterHolland · Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 5:23 pm

Expat,

the TS is referring to part of the datsetname in his program.
You can see that in another post from his hand.

ibmmainframes.com/viewtopic.php?t=51657

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 5:28 pm

expat · Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 5:32 pm

*sigh* I've just returned from that thread
Pass the valium

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 5:34 pm

just went there, let' s admit it... the fantasy of the TS is amazing

PeterHolland · Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 5:39 pm

The TS is doing me a favour. He is giving me an excuse to start boozing
early.

Phrzby Phil · Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 5:56 pm

Since you have opened two posts, I must reply to both - a minor hassle:

You seem to be attempting to write/learn COBOL and JCL on the fly.

Seriously - my rec is that you take an actual class (or 2 (or 3 ...)) with a human instructor.

Your errors above (both posts) are very elemental. Linking the file name in COBOL to the dataset in the JCL is covered early in any intro class.

This may be too complicated to learn otherwise.

Good luck.

ankoo · New User Joined: 12 Jun 2010 Posts: 31 Location: India

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 12:33 pm

the two related topics being discussed lately do not tackle a quick and dirty solution of an issue
but are due to insufficient training and lack of the expected in house support

replying / sharing OUR hardly earned skills on a forum is
on our time, our equipment
free of charge

a forum is not a substitute for the services that should be provided in house
and it' s wrong to expect people to give free consultancy/training to companies
who as in Your case have the standard of not providing them

Phrzby Phil · Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 5:32 pm

Your peers are idiots, or is it morons, or is it imbeciles? I can never remember which is which anymore.

Their method may get you by a particular sticky issue in a pinch, but if you want to learn for a career, then start at the beginning.

Would you hire a carpenter to build a house if his peers told him what yours tell you? How about a doctor? Any other occupation?

Akatsukami · Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 8:58 pm

Phrzby Phil · Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 9:04 pm

Actually, in my opinion (been programming since '64), that would have been better advice than the duct tape version that we presume they gave him.

Thanks also, for the IQ definitions.

I am now willing to call them idiots.