Value passing from Cobol to JCL.

Grandmaster_mainframe · New User Joined: 12 Sep 2005 Posts: 1

Can we pass values from cobol to jcl? How? (I am not talking of passing return code values )

cheli · New User Joined: 21 Jul 2005 Posts: 11

Hi.....

As we know,other than RETURN-CODE we can't pass any value to JCL.

Ravi gaur · New User Joined: 12 Jul 2005 Posts: 38

if i m not wrong you r asking abt the control value...

Here the example
//CS00688A JOB ACCOUNT,'OSG',CLASS=A,MSGCLASS=X,MSGLEVEL=(1,1),
// NOTIFY=&SYSUID
//STEP1 EXEC PGM=FILE
//STEPLIB DD DSN=CS00688.LOAD.COB390,DISP=SHR
//DD1 DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSPRINT DD DSN=CS00688.LOC.CNTL(CONDITON),DISP=SHR
//SYSIN DD *
RAVI
5
/*

In the above example i m giving value to Jcl through program "FILE"(COBOL) one.

sridevi2005 · New User Joined: 15 Sep 2005 Posts: 42

Hi ravi,

Can u explain me more detail.

I think there is only one way to return the values to JCL.

What is control variables?

Thanks,
Sridevi

ritakaur · New User Joined: 19 Sep 2005 Posts: 13 Location: Belgaum

we can pass conditon codes to jcl

bye.
rita

Ravi gaur · New User Joined: 12 Jul 2005 Posts: 38

I not mean control variable ,, i mean control value ,,, which we give in the batch running to pass value to cobol program to process.

Thats wat i mean