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Shaldrin M Pereira
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Hi
I am trying to pass parms to my cobol program via jcl
When I pass the parm '6W6ML2552' of length 9 bytes and display this parm in the program which is received via the linkage section, the parms is displayed as '6W6ML2552' itself.
But when I pass the parm '6&&802552' of length 9 bytes, the parm displayed in the program is '6&802552'.
I came to know from testing that the last postion in the 9 bytes is filled by spaces. Any way that I can pass '6&&802552' and get the same value in the program??? |
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expat
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& is a special action character withing the IBM mainframe world.
Looking at that example, I would perhaps try to resolve the issue using a variable number of &'s to see what results I got. |
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Shaldrin M Pereira
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Hi
Thanx for the reply
Can u give me an example?? |
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Bill O'Boyle
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If it takes two & in the parm-string to display one &, then try three & to display two &.
Or, try using hex-notation X'F65050F8F0F2F5F5F2'.
X'50' is an ampersand. |
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PeterHolland
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From the MVS JCL Reference :
Code each apostrophe and ampersand that is part of the subparameter as two consecutive
apostrophes or ampersands. For example, code 3462&5 as PARM='3462&&5'.
However, if a subparameter contains a symbolic parameter, code a single ampersand. You can
code the symbolic parameter in apostrophes. |
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