How do you pass a parameter from jcl to a cobol program apar

vbhat · New User Joined: 29 Apr 2005 Posts: 38

How do you pass a parameter from jcl to a cobol program apart from PARM and SYSIN DD*?

naveensri2005

HI,

one is ddname. u r using vsam files or ps files.

regards.
naveen

vbhat · New User Joined: 29 Apr 2005 Posts: 38

can you give me an example and explain it

MGIndaco · Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 2:04 pm Post subject:

You can pass parameter from JCL to a Cobol program in Parm or Sysin
Parm must be specify in jcl and Sysin parameter can be passed as instream DD or as sequentia/partitioned file.
i.e.
//STEP010P EXEC PGM=PGMCOBOL,PARM='......'
and
//SYSIN DD *
.....

or
//SYSIN DD DISP=SHR,DSN=MYDATASET.OR.LIBRARY.MEMBER