But the JCL is not using any parm parameter

srinivasraviprolu · New User Joined: 08 Jan 2004 Posts: 2 Location: Hyderabad

HI

The program is coded like this
01 WL-001-PARAMETER-AREA.
05 WL-001-PARM-LENGTH
BINARY PIC S9(4).
05 WL-001-PARM-RPT PIC X(5).

PROCEDURE DIVISION USING WL-001-PARAMETER-AREA

But in the JCL he is not using any parm parameter
he is excuting the proc whether it will run successfully if so i would like to know how it will work

can anybody pl ...give me reply

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bluebird · Specialist Joined: 03 Feb 2004 Posts: 144

I don't understand exactly what is our question.

The using clause appended on procedure division tells the pgm that
we are using the afore (in program ) defined in DATA DIVISION as
01 WL-001-PARAMETER-AREA.

and the code you're showing is only part of the pgm.
if you want an explanation of what pgm does post the whole code !!!
there is no instructions (after procedure division line).

srinivasraviprolu · New User Joined: 08 Jan 2004 Posts: 2 Location: Hyderabad

Hi Bluebird

I mean without using PARM in JCL can we excute the program
actualy it is getting the report number from this parm,
of course the value of the PARM will be moved to report
my question can we excute it with out mentioning about the PARM in JCL

Thankyou

mmwife · Super Moderator Joined: 30 May 2003 Posts: 1494

Hi Srini,

The ans to your ques is "maybe". You have to look at the pgm logic. For example, if the code has this stmt you may be able to correctly print a report even if the PARM wasn't provided in the JCL.