Doubt in COND operator: COND=(0,NE)

Madhanlal · New User Joined: 21 Apr 2007 Posts: 23 Location: Chennai

//s1 EXEC PGM=IKJEFT1A,COND=(0,NE)

Can anyone tell me what this step will do...

This is the first step.

agkshirsagar · Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 2:57 pm

did you refer the manual for this? Have you worked with cond code in jcl before? Please read the manual first and let us know if you still have any confusion.

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 2:58 pm

refer to the jcl ref or guide (manuals button on top of this page), search for COND.

expat · Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 3:16 pm

Madhanlal · New User Joined: 21 Apr 2007 Posts: 23 Location: Chennai

Hi MF gurus,
From the Manual: When you do not code a stepname, the step S1 will execute only when the return codes of all previous steps do not satisfy the test specified by COND.

IN MY JOB THIS IS THE FIRST STEP SO IT WILL NOT HAVE ANY PREVIOUS STEPS.

agkshirsagar · Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 3:55 pm

Condition will not be checked, s1 should execute unconditionally.

HARLEEN SINGH MANN · New User Joined: 03 Aug 2007 Posts: 17 Location: Pune

the cond wil not even try to check the cond since the step is the first step of the job.

MoganaKumaran · New User Joined: 26 Jun 2007 Posts: 20 Location: Chennai

Hi,

This step would not be executed since this is first step of ur job.

MOhan

L&T

William Thompson · Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 5:21 pm

Madhanlal · New User Joined: 21 Apr 2007 Posts: 23 Location: Chennai

Thompson
Any way it will be false for every run... does the COND here in the first stpe serve any purpose?

CICS Guy · Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 7:20 pm

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

We're assuming it's the 1st step of the job. It could be any step, including the last.

star_dhruv2000 · Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 3:46 pm

In a NUT SHELL, if u have CONd parameter on first step of a JOB then also first step is executed because we need some condition code to compare with.

Therefore first step is always executed...

bijumon · Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 4:49 pm

Hi,

COND skips a step when the condition specified in the COND becomes true.

Since this is the first step it will get executed, because there is no previous step to check the return code with, and the COND will have no effect, if this step was an intermediate step then:

The cond condition specified by you is COND=(0,NE)

This means that skip this step when 0 is not equal to the RETURN code, i.e, if any of the above steps return a value greater that zero the step will be skipped.

Thanks & Regards
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Biju

antonyjoseph · New User Joined: 11 Apr 2007 Posts: 28 Location: India

//S1 EXEC PGM=IKJEFT1A,COND=(0,NE,S0) is one way you can write this.

here the conditon checks if '0' {paramter 1} is Not Equal {parameter 2} to return code from STEPNAME S0 {parameter 3}

If this conidtion is true, then the step S1 will be skipped else it will be executed.
If we donot specify the 3rd parameter, then the third paramter will taken as the largest return Return Code the JOB has returned so far.

When starting a program, I believe that '0' will be the largest return code and hence the condition checked would be

Is 0 NE 0; this is false and hence the step is executed

Hope this helps

chandan chowdhury · Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 2:03 pm

hello friends,

this is my first post on this forum... and i am very new to Mainframe... so please don't mind any foolish replies...

i just want to know will that COND have no effect if there are more steps in the JCL with high priority assigned using DPRTY ?

agkshirsagar · Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 2:43 pm

Chandan,
Regardless of DPRTY, steps will be executed in order which they are coded in job. Let us know if this answers your question.

chandan chowdhury · Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 5:54 pm

thanks for your reply,

Yes, this is what i wanted to know...

but this means that DPRTY is of no use in modern JCL, is it true??

dick scherrer · Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 7:36 pm

Hello and welcome to the forums,

chandan chowdhury · Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 11:35 am

Thank you all, my query is solved now...