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hi!
i have a program where we have some hardcoded employee numbers in it, we need to remove that and keep them in a contral card and call them in the program, can you please how to do it and whats the process to call the control card in the program.
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im srry i didnt understand, can u please explain me a bit clearly( if possible the code ), where should have a control card, how to get values from this control card to a cobol program
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| rahul kapadia wrote: |
| im srry i didnt understand, can u please explain me a bit clearly |
Did you follow the links? Did you read the threads?
They all contain some good information....... Once you understand the various ways what you need can be done, you can then make a decision on how to do it.... |
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hi
thank you very much for sending me the info, i have clearly understand what u have sent, but a question stil troubles me, can you plese help me regarding this....what excatly is a control card and how are values passed from a control card to a prog, i understood how values need to be passed as per PARM and SYSIN DD*, but i have never worked with control card, can you please help me regarding this... |
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| rahul kapadia wrote: |
| can you plese help me regarding this....what excatly is a control card and how are values passed from a control card to a prog, i understood how values need to be passed as per PARM and SYSIN DD*, but i have never worked with control card, can you please help me regarding this... |
Control card is just a more generalized term for reading 80 byte records an external dataset (from SYSIN or an actual PDS member)....
SYSIN data can be imbedded in the JCL (DD*) or have a DSN that points to a PDS member or actual flat file....
SYSIN does not have to be the filename for the data, it could be anything you want (like CONTROL or PARMCRD)... |
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ok i have understood, can you please give a small example so that i can have a practical understanding, say i have a prog where i have emp num 6756 whose dept num is abcd hardcoded in a program, now i need to place this is a control card and read it in the prog, can you please explain this to mw, it would be very helpful
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You are a programmer, just write a SELECT and FD for an 80 byte input file for your data.
Put your data in an 80 byte file.
OPEN, READ & verify the data.
Use it as you wish.
Please post your code back here and we can give you feedback then. |
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Hello Rahul and welcome to the forums,
As CG suggests, post your code and we can help if there are questions/problems.
Here's a sample sysin input file with 2 employees:
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//SYSIN DD *
6756 ABCD
4368 DFRW
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I've shown this as "instream data" which will work well for initial testing. Your process will probably work better if the employee control info is in a member of some pds or is an individual file when promoted to production.
Someone will be here if there are questions/problems. |
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hi d.sh.
thanks for your reply, i understood what u have sent, but i was told that we need to use a control card for each employee seperately so that in future any changes made can be made directly to the card, i am really confused big time, Please can you shown me an example as how a control card has to created and code to use that in cobol and its corresponding rqst, please can you do it for me...
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Hi Rahul,
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| i was told that we need to use a control card for each employee seperately so that in future any changes made can be made directly to the card |
Yes, this is why i mentioned using a member in some PDS. For testing, it does not matter where the data resides - the code will be the exact same. The difference will be in the DD statement that defines the "control card".
Don't let the term "control card" cause confusion. It is just a name. As it happens, it will control which employee(s) to process (without needing to re-compile the program every time this is run).
Your program will be just as it is now except the empid/dept will be read from an external file rather than referencing some "hard-coded" value. You could probably read the external file and move the empid/dept values to the fields that are now literals in the code.
You need to talk with whoever is providing the "rules" and ask if more than one employee might be processed in a single execution of this program. We (here at the forum) don't get to vote on that 
If you are having confusion with the concept of reading the "control card", i'd suggest you write/clone a very tiny program to read the info from my other post and when you read a "control card" simply DISPLAY it. Once you feel comfortable reading the card(s), put that code in the "real" program. |
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hi d.sch
now its very clear, i just want to make sure what i understood.....so we need to keep the value (empid/dept) in a pds and call the pds during run of the program, am i right, pls correct if i need to know more, please suggest me... |
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Hello,
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| call the pds during run of the program |
Well, if you mean coding a SELECT, FD, OPEN, READ, CLOSE as "calling the pds", yes. What i gave is the DD statement needed in the execute jcl. You need to add the pieces to the COBOL code.
I'll be online off and on for the next several hours, so when you have some code and try it, let me know what happens. Keep in mind that your new FD simply replaces the constants in the original code. |
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Hi,
I want to know how to create a control card with an employee number 678, and how this would be read in a cobol prog and its corresponding jcl...can you please give a sample logic so that i could get an idea and work it on real time...
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Rahul. |
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Hi Rahul,
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| coding a SELECT, FD, OPEN, READ, CLOSE |
is the logic. . .
You have code with one or more SELECT statements? Add another.
Your code has one or more FDs? Add another.
You code OPENs some file(s). Include another.
The same with a READ. . .
As i suggested before, do this in a separate program if you need to. Once you have the code, you can post questions about it here.
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| I want to know how to create a control card with an employee number 678 |
Look above. There are 2 samples in the SYSIN i posted earlier. If you only want one, ignore the other. |
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Hello Rahul,
Is progress being made?
Hopefully, your code is working as you need now.
If there are still questions, post what you have so far and your question(s) about it. |
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