Continuing the input data in next line (>80 char) for SYS

lokeshpg · New User Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 10

HI

WHILE PASSING PARAMETER TO SYSIN IN JCL, LENGTH OF MY PARAMETER EXCEEDS THE MAX LENGTH OF 80. MY PARAMETER LENGTH IS 98. SO CAN ANYBODY TELL ME HOW TO GIVE CONTINUATION FOR THE NEXT LINE OF JCL TO PASS PARAMETER.

REGARDS

LOKESH

Jerry · New User Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 42

Hi,

If you just have to continue the sysin parameter to the next line use "-" and continue in the next line as below:

DEFINE CLUSTER (NAME(xxx.yyy.zzz) -
SPEED -
RECORDS(9500 1000) -
SHAREOPTIONS(2 3) -
CISZ(4096) -
RECORDSIZE(4089 4089) -
VOL(FDB021) -
REUSE -
NONINDEXED) -
DATA -
(NAME(xxx.yyy.zzz.DATA))

Hope this helps!

superk · Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 1:57 pm

LOKESH, what does the program you are using expect for a continuation character? Is it a standard utility program or is it your program? Different programs look for different characters.

lokeshpg · New User Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 10

HI

I'M TRYING TO INSERT VALUES INTO AN EXISTING TABLE THROUGH MY DB2-COBOL PGM AND PASSING THE VALUES AS PARAMETERS (IN INSTREAM DATA) IN THE RUN JCL(AT SYSIN).THIS IS A USER WRITTEN PGM AND NOT A UTILITY

REGARDS
LOKESH

superk · Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 3:29 pm

Well, you'll have to check with the author of that program and determine what they coded as a continuation delimiter (if they even did).

My suggestion? Change the LRECL of the PDS your job is in from 80 bytes to an LRECL of at least 98 bytes (JCL records can be up to 254 bytes) and put the SYSIN data on a single line.

Anbudan · New User Joined: 07 Sep 2005 Posts: 26 Location: Germany

Hi lokeshpg

Is ur problem is as below,

//SYSIN DD *
Table values...........98

then the solution is:

//SYSIN DD DISP=SHR,DSN=ABC.TEST.DATA(TABLEVAL)

i.e,

i)create a ps or pds data set
ii)put table values, which u are going to insert, in the dataset
iii)use the line(Green colour) in ur JCL
iv)submit

If you have still problem, feel free to ask

Anbudan