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sudhir1507

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 12:40 pm
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Please tell me anybody,If I have JCL which have 10 steps.If I have to execute the job till 7th step.Then what parameter I have to give.I don't want to use COND parameter.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 12:46 pm
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HOMEWORK ?
And why would you NOT want to use the quickest and easiest solution.

Is this instream or PROC
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 1:22 pm
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/*EOF after the last step
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sudhir1507

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 5:21 pm
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this is proc and this is interview question.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 10:04 pm
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Hello,

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I don't want to use COND parameter.
If it were me, i'd tell the interviewer that you can't always get what you want. . .

Did they want the 7th step to execute or did they want the job to terminate before the 7th step was run? One (rather unacceptable) way might be to plant an override DD that is syntactically correct, but will cause a "dataset not found" error when that step is reached icon_evil.gif
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Terry Heinze

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 11:32 am
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sudhir1507 wrote:
I don't want to use COND parameter.
Does that mean that you don't want to use the IF/THEN/ELSE/ENDIF construct either?
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deepthimadhu

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PostPosted: Wed Dec 02, 2009 6:04 pm
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You can put a null statement after the 7th step, so that the steps from 8 to 10 wont get executed
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karisurya

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PostPosted: Fri Dec 04, 2009 5:54 pm
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As deepthi said Null statement after 7th step should work even though its not a clean way of doing it.
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expat

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PostPosted: Fri Dec 04, 2009 6:22 pm
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deepthimadhu wrote:
You can put a null statement after the 7th step, so that the steps from 8 to 10 wont get executed

karisurya wrote:
As deepthi said Null statement after 7th step should work even though its not a clean way of doing it.

As stated by the OP earlier, this is a PROC and not instream JCL. So perhaps one of you guys can supply the answer on how to insert the NULL into the PROC.
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 04, 2009 8:12 pm
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Jeez I hate this forum! Once again, without knowing the exact context and role for which this question was asked, there's no real way to know what the expected proper answer is. icon_evil.gif
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lalitsharma_77

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PostPosted: Fri Dec 04, 2009 11:27 pm
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Hi Sudhir,

I guess you can use IEBEDIT command. This way you can execute first 7 steps out of 10 of a CATALOG PROC.

Thanks
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expat

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PostPosted: Fri Dec 04, 2009 11:54 pm
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lalitsharma_77 wrote:
I guess you can use IEBEDIT command. This way you can execute first 7 steps out of 10 of a CATALOG PROC.

Did you TEST before posting.
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lalitsharma_77

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PostPosted: Sat Dec 05, 2009 4:01 am
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Hi Expat,

I tested this in my last shop and it worked. There I executed just 1 step. I did not test the same recently.
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