xpediter Interview Questions

nagalakshmi · New User Joined: 23 Feb 2005 Posts: 7

Hi,

Please Clarify :

1. What is the diff b/w opening/reading an empty PS/VSAM file and opening/fetching an empty CURSOR?

and some questions on Xpeditor

2. How to Setup data in Xpeditor before the preparation of the jcllist

3. How the variables in the linkage section of a called program are setup

4. what are the ddio files and load libraries

If anyone having detail description of Xpeditor with screenshots please do forward

Thanks in advance
Lakshmi

Bakulesh · New User Joined: 01 Sep 2004 Posts: 3

Opening and reading PS (Physical Sequential) and VSAM file means we issue OPEN verb and then a READ verb (which because the file is empty should raise an END OF FILE condition and in COBOL/2 control should go to statements in AT END clause. I say 'should' because that is commonsense answer but IBM would not be IBM if it did not do these things in convoluted way. Not sure even OPEN in case VSAM file might also fail.

Anyways OPEN of a cursor which produces zero rows in result table should always be successful and FETCH should return End of Table condition (IIRC it is SQLCODE = 100).

Donno much about XPDTR.

Variables in a linkage section: You do not set them up, it is the business of calling program.

DDIO? Whatzzat?

Load libraries are excutable libraries.

mmwife · Super Moderator Joined: 30 May 2003 Posts: 1592

Hi Lakshmi,

Just an addition to Bakulesh's OPEN ans. There are 2 kinds of "empty" for MVS, etc. files:

1) Where the file has been properly closed. In this case a READ will produce an EOF condition as Bakulesh indicated.

2) Where the file has not been closed (e.g. allocated, but not used). In this case a READ will produce an "exception condition". If you don't use FILE-STATUS or some other SYNAD routine the pgm will abend.

venu_anne · New User Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Posts: 3

Hi all,
Iam a new member to this group.
1. when we want to read a record from vsam file from the vsam and send it to insert statement.
cursor is used when we want read a table and and put it on a select statement.
More Precise vsam is a file and cursur is used with tables.

4. 1. DDIO libraries containing the source listing members.

2. Load libraries containing the programs to be tested and
Debugged.

Note: The source listing dataset and your load libraries are
the output of the compile and link.
can u reframe the third question..
The answers are to my knowledge....
if any thing wrong pl. correct it

mainframemouli · New User Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 52 Location: Mysore

ovreddy · Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 5:24 pm

Hi Lakshmi,

I will give more suggestions on XPEDITOR INTERVIEW QUESTIONS and SCREEN SHOTS. Give me your personal mail id. Mail me to ****Email Deleted****Bye,
Reddy.

anuradha · Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 3:11 pm

Hi OVReddy,

This is an open forum and it will be better if you post those kind of helpful stuff here itself. What do you say???

This is just my suggestion:-)

shashi · New User Joined: 10 Mar 2005 Posts: 8

Hello Reddy,
I think wat Anu says is crect ....THis is an open forum so u can post ur answers here itself ..than sending it in personal mail ids...others will also learn if u post the answers ...
Bye

ovreddy · Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 11:26 am

Hi Anu and Shashi,

I agree with you. But the problem is Laxmi asked for screen shots and material, which we cannot post directly. I have posted this answer on 06 Dec 2004, At that time we dont have an upload option ( which was Introduced recently). Thats the reason why i gave the answer personally.

Any way thanks for your suggestions.

Bye,
Reddy.

ankyhunk · Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 1:35 pm

For details you might refer this link too - http://ibmmainframes.com/viewtopic.php?t=1050&highlight=

rammf · New User Joined: 24 Jul 2005 Posts: 17 Location: chennai

harinatha · New User Joined: 24 Jul 2005 Posts: 28

Hi OVreddy,

even i need XPEDITER materials and SCREEN SHOTS

Can u send to my mail id *****Email Id Deleted*****
otherwise u can send to this forum also.

Thanks & Regards
Hari.

vijayamadhuri · Active User Joined: 06 Apr 2005 Posts: 180

please find the attachments enclosed

HIRAKI81 · New User Joined: 17 Aug 2005 Posts: 5

Hi,

There is a tutorial option (Option # T ) in Expeditor. Probably you can go through that for further details.

Regards,
Ram

manjulapragathy · New User Joined: 30 Nov 2005 Posts: 1 Location: bangalore

Hi all,

If any of you have screen shots of Expeditor then please send me to the following ID

***EMail ID REMOVED... Use CODE tag to include mail id***

Thanks in advance..

bye,
Hussain Reddy